Feature request: Selective subrepos

[Martin Geisler]

Alexander Leschinsky <lazybadger at gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 14, 5:36 am, Todd Greer <TGr... at affinegy.com> wrote:
>
>> Basically, we want a more flexible subrepo facility. We'd like to be
>> able to have, within one repo, multiple sets of subrepos, such that
>> the user can elect to pull one set. This would let us have one set
>> for Windows computers, and a different set for Mac computers.
>
> Well, call me idiot, but... if you share common tree between platform
> and just have to have different subrepos URLs, while not handle
> different .hgsub (and other possible changes) in different MQ-patches?
> One patch per platform

That's not a bad idea -- except for the fact that mq doesn't interact
very well with subrepos at the moment. I suggest using two named
branches instead: switching from the "win" branch to "mac" will be
equivalent to popping the "win" patch and applying the "mac" one.

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Martin Geisler

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