Guestrepo Extension
Extension for enterprises needing to handle modules and components
Contents
1. Status
This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.
Author: Schweitzer Engineering Labs opensource@selinc.com
Repository: https://bitbucket.org/selinc/guestrepo
Mailing List: http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-guestrepo
2. Overview
The Guestrepo Extension adds commands to clone, push, pull, and summarize the state of nested repositories.
Use case:
- Many products, multiple projects within those products, multiple developers within those projects, multiple branches per developer
- Source code shared in a multiplicity of configurations
- Third party code (possibly patched on some branches)
- A given module may have multiple versions going into the same product
Hg subrepos do not handle the sharing of components well, due to the recursive merge from the top (super) repo and requirement to lock at a specific version.
Guestrepo supports python version 2.4 and above and mercurial 1.9 and above.
3. Configuration
Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding following lines:
[extensions] guestrepo = path/to/guestrepo/guestrepo
4. See also
ForestExtension HgNestedExtension