Alternative to "forests"

[Mark A. Flacy]

On 04/10/2008 05:23:37 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Very interesting. I like it.
> 
> How about a "description = words" field to describe what each repo is?
> 
> One of the issues I'm having with the OpenJDK forest is creating a
> kind of 'forest tag' to describe the state of the entire forest with
> one file or simple set of changeset ids.
> So something like a 'hg fsnap' ('hg module --dumpstate > state'?)  
> would be
> helpful, and then being able to re-create a forest later in time
> with a 'hg clone -M state'???
> 
> Ultimately I would like to bake this information into the built  
> product so
> that at some later time, you could re-create the exact sources used to
> create a product, at anytime, easily and quickly.
> Dealing with one repository and one product is easy, these bigger  
> puppies
> are a little more complicated. ;^)

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Mark A. Flacy