phases and subrepos

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:44:42AM +0100, Angel Ezquerra Moreu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been thinking about the interaction between subrepos and phases.
> 
> One thing that has occurred to me is that there is as common case
> where rewriting history causes problems, which is when you try to
> rewrite the history of a subrepo.
> 
> So, wouldn't it make sense to consider the selection of a subrepo
> revision on its parent repo a publishing event? That is, committing a
> change to the hgsubstate file on a parent repo should automatically
> change the phase of the corresponding subrepo revision (and its
> ancestors) to public.
> 
> This would make it really hard to mess up your parent repo by
> modifying one of its subrepos (with mq, for example).
> 
> What do you guys think?

I think we better fix subrepo than mark s immutable changeset that have no real
reason to be immutable (other than rewriting extensions does not handle
subrepo)


-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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