[PATCH 1 of 5] bundle2: very first version of a bundle2 bundler

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 03/19/2014 03:32 PM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:02 PM,  <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at fb.com>
>> # Date 1395176450 25200
>> #      Tue Mar 18 14:00:50 2014 -0700
>> # Node ID f77651bc816e79ae36b17641f13194edb92e5dcf
>> # Parent  29b159bd71bc68e9868c5d2d748ab166dc7a5287
>> bundle2: very first version of a bundle2 bundler
>>
>> This changeset is the very first of a long series. It create a new bundle2
>> module and add a simple class that generate and empty bundle2 container.
>>
>> The module is documented with the current state of the implementation. For
>> information about the final goal you may want to consult the mercurial wiki
>> page:
>>
>>      http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BundleFormat2
>>
>> The documentation of the module will be updated with later patches adding more and
>> more feature to the format.
>>
>> This patches also introduce a test case. This test case build and use its own
>> small extension that use the new bundle2 module. Since the new format is unable
>> to do anything right now, we could not use real mercurial code to test it.
>> Moreover, some advanced feature of the bundle2 spec will not be used by core
>> mercurial at all. So we need to have them tested.
>
> I went through the new bundle format doc and one thing I did not see
> is any mention of subrepos.
> Currently the bundle/unbundle commands completely ignore subrepos.
> This is quite annoying when you have to share stuff with people who do
> not have access to a shared web server.

The bundle2 container format can contains is an application agnostic 
format that containts multiple "parts" each part doing whatever they 
want. You'll be more than welcome to add some subrepo related part when 
the format will be usable.


-- 
Pierre-Yves