toying with a forest [was: Locking (binary) files which can't be merged]

[Robin Farine]

On Tue June 5 2007 16:14, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:58:08AM +0200,
> Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de wrote: 

> > I wonder if this is the wrong place to ask questions like that
> > -- there has been no reply to my question about
> > forest/externals...why? What is your suggestion about how one
> > should learn about things like that?
>
> I was expecting the guy who maintains it to answer. Perhaps he's
> busy.

I simply have no idea at all about how perforce mappings or 
subversion externals work, so I cannot compare.

If it helps, the principle behind the forest extension is very 
similar to Arch's configurations or Robert Collins' config. 
manager.

Regarding the extension documentation: to me, starting by reading 
the output of 'hg help forest' (patches to improve it welcome) and 
then building a toy forest and playing with it for 10 minutes seems 
the best way to learn how to use this extension.

The attached script creates such a toy forest.

Robin
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