error pulling from symbolic repo

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:18:20AM -0700, TK Soh wrote:
> --- TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > --- Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
> > > > % hg paths
> > > > default = selected
> > > > selected = bos
> > > > bos = http://www.serpentine.com/hg
> > > > tah = http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial-tah/
> > > > hg = http://selenic.com/hg
> > > > 
> > > > With your patch 'hg pull' would pull from subdirectory 'selected',
> > > > while 'hg pull selected' would pull from Bryan.
> > > > 
> > > > So you want recursive lookup of paths, but here one has to make sure
> > > > that no endless loop happens.
> > > 
> > > Agreed. Here's a quick hack on ui.expandpath(). Please comment.
> > 
> > I've made a patch out of this with a slight change:
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Did you have a chance to look at this? I think this should be fixed
> before Matt cut the 0.6c release.

I'm not sure I like this one. I'd rather store the looked up path at
clone time in .hgrc. I think your first change did this. The recursion
can break in unexpected ways otherwise.

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