Subrepositories

[Nicolas Pinault]

Le 31/08/2016 à 17:10, Nicolas Pinault a écrit :
> Le 31/08/2016 à 16:57, Kevin Bullock a écrit :
>>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 02:28, Nicolas Pinault<nicolasp at aaton.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm starting to use subrepositories.
>>> My first question : Do I have to add .hgsubstate to the repository ?
>> No, you just create the .hgsub file and Mercurial maintains the .hgsubstate for you.
>>
>> What are you using them for? Subrepos are generally considered a feature of last resort—a feature that is fully supported, but has significant tradeoffs in its use vs. normal Mercurial usage. You'll want to read the recommendations and caveats on the wiki:<https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Subrepository#Recommendations>
> I hoped the answer is "yes".
> I'm quite sure TortoiseHg adds it automatically. If it is not in the 
> main repo, I don't understand how hg knows which revision of the 
> sub-repos have to be used when pulling/updating.

I made a little simple test  (Boost repo is already existing) :

hg init
echo Boost = Boost > .hgsub
hg add .hgsub
hg commit

.hgsubstate has been automatically added and committed to the main repo. 
That makes sense.

>
> I use big libraries (boost and others) in my project. I don't want 
> these libraries to be added to my main repo. So I decided to use 
> sub-repositories.
>
>> pacem in terris / мир / शान्ति / ‎‫سَلاَم‬ / 平和
>> Kevin R. Bullock
>>
>> .
>>
>
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