Any way to update without hgsub processing?

[Yuya Nishihara]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:23:45 +0200, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> Is it in any way possible to perform
>      hg update -r «revision»
> WITHOUT applying .hgsub?

No.

> I have at least two cases where it is really needed:
> 
> 1. (git) repository mentioned in .hgsub is simply no longer available
>    (and I need to access the old version code). So I get
> 
>      cloning subrepo custom from ssh://no.more.existing.domain/sub/repo
>      Cloning into '…'
>      ssh: Could not resolve hostname no.more.existing.domain: Name or
> service not known
>      fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> 
>      Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>      and the repository exists.
>      abort: git clone error 128 in custom (in subrepository "repo")
> 
>   update fails and I can't do anything about it (to fix .hgsub of old version
>   I need update to old version first…).

You can remap the subrepository paths by adding [subpaths] to .hg/hgrc.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Subrepository#Use_.27trivial.27_subrepo_paths_where_possible