Need reviewer and comments

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Mon Dec 20 21:18:39 UTC 2010


On Dec 20, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Per Bothner wrote:

> On 12/20/2010 12:53 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> I'm proposing adding that script to the make/scripts directory and  
>> also
>> provide an easy 'get-source.sh'
>> script for people to get the entire forest and avoid a hard  
>> dependence
>> on the Forest Extension.
>
> Has anyone looked into using Mercurial sub-repositories?
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Subrepository

The observations I have gotten from people is that subrepos is a bit  
too restrictive for our use.
We have traditionally allowed for partial forests and independent  
repository work, and subrepos
didn't seem to allow for that.

-kto

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> 	--Per Bothner
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