[Fwd: 'forest' extension]

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> Just a headsup - this is how hg are approaching nested by reference
> trees.
> 
> Personally, I'd love to see Aarons work to add root ids finely reviewed
> and merged, so that that we can implement nested trees by reference,
> which I am still convinced is a much nicer way to do it.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

...

> Hi,
> 
> Here is a first cut of a Mercurial extension that provides commands 
> to help working with trees composed of many Mercurial repositories.
> 
> From the module's doc string:
> 
>   This extension provides commands that apply to a composite tree
>   called a forest. Some commands simply wrap standard Mercurial
>   commands, such as 'clone' or 'status', and others involve a
>   snapshot file.
> 
>   A snapshot file represents the state of a forest at a given time.
>   It has the format of a ConfigParser file and lists the trees in a
>   forest, each tree with the following attributes:
> 

Sounds a lot like Arch's config files.
I think we discussed doing that, but I agree that our discussion which
ended with nested by-reference trees is easier to use overall.

John
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