Thoughts on narrow checkouts

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 14:30 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> > I am trying to measure the feasability and amount of work to support
> > read-only narrow checkouts as Mercurial subrepositories.
> 
> I think this sounds like an interesting and useful feature.

Agreed. Though if we're going to be read-only, we might as well think
ahead to narrow pulls as well.

> > 3- Add a new subrepo type like [hgreadonly] where the .hgsubstate
> >    would store the revisions as nodeid at subpath. A narrow checkout
> >    command may be useful too, so the "checkout then register in
> >    .hgsub" workflow would still be usable (instead of editing
> >    .hgsubstate directly).
> 
> I think it would be better to let the user specify the narrow path in
> the .hgsub file and reserve the .hgsubstate file for Mercurial.

Agreed. Though I'd probably do this with a config section instead.

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