Nested repos
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jul 21 21:08:44 CDT 2009
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:05 -0700, John Patterson wrote:
>
>
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> >
> > No, Mercurial will steadfastly refuse to look at files in a nested
> > repository. Short of fiddling with union mounts or similar, there's no
> > way around it. As far as I know, you're the first person to ask for this
> > particular behavior variant.
> >
> >
>
> I was wondering what is the recommended approach to shared "modules"? I
> can't find this mentioned in the documentation.
Right now it's "do it by hand", the forest extension, or the new
subrepos feature.
> Is it possible to get hg to ignore the nested .hg folders? Or is my
> approach to shared modules just a bad idea?
You'd need to modify some code to make this happen.
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