Recursive pull on subrepos

[Martin Geisler]

Andreas Reichel <andreas at manticore-projects.com> writes:

Hi Andreas,

> thank you for pointing me on that. Being German I am still not happy.
> I understand your solution and all the technical reasons but with the
> eyes of any most stupid user I would like to say:
>
> a) 'hg onsub "hg pull -u"' is far more complicated than "hg pull -su"
> or "./pull.sh" (really, after a day I just forget the command)
>
> b) the extension is not installed by default and it is not in my
> distribution's repository so I need to force my audience to learn
> about it. It is also hard to find, I failed to find it by myself.
>
> c) "it is not known what to pull until you do 'hg update'" -- in my
> maximum ignorance I do not care if the "hg pull -su" step consists of
> two internal serial steps. I'd like to drive the car not understanding
> the difference between diesel and gasoline or otto and wankel.
>
> Please understand my points as positive critics. I am happy to learn
> there is an extension but it looks overly complicated to me and if
> even I prefer to stick with simple "./pull.sh" then probably Joe
> Sixpack users will too.

Yeah, I do see it as constructive critisism. I also think this is too
complicated and a non-standard extension is only a stop-gap solution.

Someone should implement 'hg pull --subrepos' to do what 'hg onsub hg
pull' does now: call 'hg pull' in all subrepositories. That would make a
lot of users happy.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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