commit .hgsubstate after remove from .hgsub

[Yuya Nishihara]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:23:53 -0500, Jérôme Godbout wrote:
> how does one keep the right sub version between checkout/revision then? is
> that kept into the commit action somewhere into the .hg?

No. subrepo revisions are kept in .hgsubstate.

> I'm a bit confuse how the info inside the .hgsubstate is transfer from one
> revision to another. I though that the .hgsubstate was the only place where
> this info was kept and since you do want a particular revision not
> necessarily the default sub head.
> 
> So if I go back to main rev 12, I want the sub to go back to the same
> revision when I was using rev 12 too. The way we found to do this is commit
> the .hgsubstate but if that information is kept somewhere else I would
> remove it from the commit file list.
> 
> It does feel strange that the .hgsubstate is not simply a regular commited
> file like .hgsub is. But again, maybe there is an underlayer I don't see at
> work here.

.hgsubstate is a regular file, but its contents are managed by hg, something
like .hgtags. You shouldn't edit it manually, but you just need to commit the
changes made by hg.