Subrepositories

[Nicolas Pinault]

Le 31/08/2016 à 18:03, Michael McNeil Forbes a écrit :
>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Kevin Bullock <kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> wrote:
>>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 10:10, Nicolas Pinault <nicolasp at aaton.com> wrote:
>>> Le 31/08/2016 à 16:57, Kevin Bullock a écrit:
>>>
>>> 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.
>> That is a classic use case where people want to reach for subrepos (or svn externals or other equivalent features). But it's almost always the wrong solution. Fetching and maintaining dependencies is a problem that's much better solved by your build system and your operating system. I think CMake is commonly used for this purpose in C++ projects. There's also Boost Build: <http://www.boost.org/build/>
> Although your build system is probably the way to go, if you want to stick with a VC approach for managing some dependencies, then I have found myrepos http://myrepos.branchable.com to be useful.  It can maintain weak "subrepositories" that point to the original source repositories of your dependencies.
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> Michael..
My build system can't manage such features.
myrepos is interresting.
I'll stick with hg subrepos for now for two reasons :
- It's managed by TortoiseHg. Some of my colleagues... well, you know 
the story ;)
- The subrepositories content should not change but might be used in 
other projects in the future.

I keep myrepos in a corner of my mind. It might be useful one day.
Thanks.

Nicolas