Subrepositories location

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of J.S. van Bethlehem
>
> So today I started experimenting a bit with the subrepo feature. And I
> have the following question:
> is the location of a subrepo in some limited?
> 
> I have the following in my .hgsub file:
>   bool = ../bool
> 
> It's kind of weird, I know, but that's the way it is. So I have some
> repository that should become the subrepo that is at the same level as
> the current repo. Now when I did hg ci, indeed I got a message that it
> was first comitting ../bool before comitting the current repo. Yet, when
> going to ../bool I saw that nothing had happened! So: is there some
> limitation on the type of relative paths that is accepted as subrepo?
> (eg: any subrepo for which the path starts with ../ is simply not
> allowed?)

To me this sounds as if you want to do the following:

1. Edit something in ../bool
2. Go to your superrepo, issue "hg ci".
3. Have the changes in ../bool commited, without having an actual subdirectory "bool" in your superrepo folder.

I guess this is a misunderstanding of what the right side of .hgsub entries is doing. It is just the path to the remote repository your subrepo will push to / pull from. In the case of relative paths, they are concatenated to the superrepo's origin path.

OTOH, it is also possible that you wanted to have the bool subdirectory in your superrepo folder behave like a share to ../bool. In this case you have to keep in mind that subrepos are just that: normal Mercurial repositories. If you want them to be something else, like a share or a softlink, you'll have to do that manually.

There was a discussion about subrepo paths just some days ago, where I posted a patch to add a new subrepo-type called [link]: http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2011-May/038402.html

Maybe this is what you had in mind?

regards,
Fritz


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