[PATCH 1 of 2] cat: record the current behavior of wildcard matches in subrepos

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Wed Dec 6 12:26:13 EST 2017


> On Dec 4, 2017, at 08:47, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:55:36 -0500, Matt Harbison wrote:
> 
>> This is as good a place as any to ask- when do we follow through on the  
>> Subrepo Grand Plan? [1]  It seems that the long term plan was to always  
>> recurse by default, and this -S stuff was a bandaid for issues resolved  
>> long ago.  I wouldn't do it this cycle, given that we are have way  
>> through.  There are probably a few things that might need fixing first.   
>> (I'm thinking `hg serve --web-conf` doesn't know how to recurse, and I'm  
>> sure there are a couple of other odd cases.)  Maybe we will want an  
>> experimental flag to ease into it.
>> 
>> [1]  
>> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2011-October/034816.html
> 
> The grand plan sounds like a big BC since we have 6-year history of the current
> subrepo behavior.

I don't immediately see anything in that grand plan that breaks compatibility in any way that matters. It would be awfully nice to finally finish integrating subrepos into the UI.

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