Hierarchal manifest for tree

[Peter Williams]

marco bubke wrote:
> If I understand the code right than you use the command shell interface 
> like 'hg status' etc..

Yes, that's right.  It has the advantage that I can easily modify the 
system to use a different back end (e.g. GIT) in lieu of Mercurial.

It also has the advantage that you don't have to worry about maintaining 
synchronization with the state of the working directory or repository 
with respect to changes made to either from outside of your program. 
I.e. if you integrate this type of program with hg directly you have to 
contend with the issue of the hg components "remembering" what the state 
of the directory/repository rather than rereading it.

> I don't want to writer a wrapper around the 
> command interface. I like to know to write beside the command interface.

OK.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au

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