Newbie question

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 03 Februar 2009 03:54:32 schrieb Doug Philips:
> Maybe. Also not sure what the group commit would look like to someone
> who didn't have the extension enabled (say, the hgwebdir view of the
> repo, etc.)

A group is just a regular commit, so it is present as normal commit to the 
.hggroups file for someone who doesn't have the group extension. 

The commit is an ancestor to the most recent revision in the group (as long as 
you create the group using the group extension), so updating to the group 
gives you the code of the grouped files, regardless of whether you have the 
group extension enabled or disabled. 

But to integrate it with bisect, we'd have to make bisect group-aware. 

> groups are an interesting idea, but the problem with extensions is  
> that you can't force them across the wire, and since .hgrc creation is  
> so paranoid, you can't even keep them across local clones (this is  
> related to losing all your policy hooks on a local clone too).

Groups don't need to be forced. They are meant to make history nicer to read, 
and if someone doesn't use the group extension, then his history will be less 
nice to read, but he doesn't lose any information. He can still read the 
.hggroups file himself. 

Why don't you write a "propagate hgrc" extension? You'd only have to overwrite 
the clone command. 


Besides: The group extension sidesteps the "can't point to yourself" issue by 
using annotation of the lines in the .hggroups file. This has the drawback 
that changing the .hggroups file by hand changes the descriptions of the 
changed groups to your commit message (along with all other changeset data). 

This could be used for tags, but it would mean, that editing tags by hand 
would destroy the tagging information. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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