Layered repositories

[Radoslaw Szkodzinski]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:05:48 +0200
Erich Schubert <erich at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> > This method will work if the branches do not overwrite each other's
> > files. If that happens, the contents and existence of the files will
> > depend on the head last reverted to.
> 
> Which is still not satisfying, since I need to have layers actually hide
> or replace files from lower layers, like the postfix configuration file,
> which is the same on all my machines except the mailservers.
> 

It will hide them. The last revert will overwrite.

> Also doesn't revert undo my changes?
> Say I've modified some configuration option on the box. My usual process
> would be to update (if I forgot to update before my changes...), then
> commit my change.
> But with the update process you explained I would probably lose these
> changes?

Not really.
You just need to remember to update to the correct head.
This means the same head you are currently on.
Revert itself will scrap your changes, but you don't need to do it to update.

> Can I still commit files which are not in the head I checked out last?

Well, yes, using rawcommit with -p option I think. If you mean
committing them to another head. If not, then just a simple hg add, 
hg commit will do what you want.

But that's why I've told you that for development, you'd better have
multiple repository copies, each showing a different branch of the
repository.

hg status won't help you in this case. (it'll show you all files from
other branches as unknown) You must add the files manually and not use
hg addremove or hg commit -A.

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