one more question..

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:05 +1100, Brett Calcott wrote:
> Thanks to John for his rapid response to my previous questions.
> 
> One last question:
> 
> How does bzr handle something like subversion's "externals". I have a 
> project (a python gui) that I want to use in a couple of my other 
> projects, by placing it into a subdirectory. Will bzr recognise this as 
> a foreign branch? (a quick test seems to suggest not). Is this something 
> people have looked at?

Yes, we have a spec on the bazaar.canonical.com wiki about it:
'BzrNestedTreeSupport'. I'm hoping to hack a prototype up for this in
'config-manager', which is an external tool dedicated to
functionality /like/ that found in svn:externals, arch's configs and
CVS's module aliases.

At the moment if you have two trees nested, the top tree will ignore the
bottom tree for things like 'add' and will show it as an 'unknown' dir
(which is a bug but not harmful).

Rob

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