Forest? Branches? And other beginner questions...

[Michael Smith]

Stuart W. Marks wrote:
> I don't know anything about the Forest extension. Looking at the 
> extension page
> 
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtension
> 
> it sort of makes sense, but I'm having trouble imagining the 
> circumstances under which it would be useful.

The product I work on consists of a number of components, each of which 
is in a cvs module.

I export from cvs into mercurial repositories. I get one repository for 
each cvs module because tailor can only export fromm one cvs module at a 
time.

So I have a "forest" of mercurial repositories which, taken together, 
make up the full system.

Most operations at the integration level require that we act on all 
repositories equally, ie, branching. Developers really only need one cvs 
module/mercurial repository so it makes sense for them to clone a single 
repo.
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