'forest' extension

[Robin Farine]

On Sunday July 16 2006 20:51, Eric Bloodworth wrote:

> I guess I'm (incorrectly) assuming that the snapshot file is a
> snapshot of the trees you see with snapshot-trees. Is there is
> some reason you need to read the snapshot file that I'm not
> understanding?

The reason for reading a snapshot file and update it is that when 
one clones a repository, its paths section will only contain 
the 'default' alias 'clone' puts in .hg/hgrc. But what I want to do 
is to be able to have more than one location for each sub-tree, one 
for each mainline repository, one for a backup of each repository 
on a USB stick, ... Having the possibility of updating an existing 
snapshot file allows me to edit a snapshot just after I created it 
and then update it so that only the revisions or new trees get 
changed, the path aliases I have added for existing trees are 
preserved.

Of course, I could also edit all of the sub-tree .hg/hgrc files to 
add all the aliases I need but I find this more cumbersome than 
editing a single file.

> Also, forest-trees uncorrectly handles symlinks (hg-current is a
> symlink):
>
> [extern/hg-current]
> /home/eric/extern/hg-current: unsupported file type (type is
> symbolic link)

Ah, good point. I thought that using isdir() would handle symbolic 
links just fine.

Thanks,

Robin