subrepo grand plan

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Thu Oct 20 11:36:06 CDT 2011


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 17:18, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> I'm with Patrick in that I prefer (b) even now. I find his argument
>> about predictability and scalability of performance compelling, but
>> mostly I find recursive commit (by default) plain scary.
>
> Would it still be scary if you had recursive diff and status by default?

Much less so, of course. Does rebase also recurse by default? log?
parents? It still seems to me that the conceptual integrity would
suffer, and it would take a whole lot of time and changesets to get
everything integrated properly with the principle of least
astonishment intact.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 17:32, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> We'd need to add a -S switch to get the old behavior and a hint.
>
> I'm a little concerned that this will bring development on subrepo
> integration to a stand-still.

Not sure what you mean? An -S switch for commit? Why would this bring
development to a stand-still? What kind of "integration"?

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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