hg diff --subrepos

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Michael Sperber: 

 > 
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > Mats Lidell writes:
 > >  > >>>>> Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > That's dangerous, as it doesn't necessarily give you the
 > >  > > *consistent* set that Norbert is managing.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yes if you mix up doing a consistent pull with doing a pull on all
 > >  > subrepos. So in that sense onsub might be evil since it makes that
 > >  > error easier to make.
 > >
 > > As I wrote before, it's not an error (bug).  The problem is that an
 > > onsub pull gives you a workspace with *no consistency guarantees at
 > > all* in our current workflow.  What we're trying to work out here is
 > > "what consistency guarantees should we provide to the smoke test?"
 > > Not to mention, Norbert. :-)
 > 
 > I think you're right and I was wrong: Package authors may want to use
 > the smoketest to find out if their packages builds outside their own
 > environment, and push something there that hasn't gone through Norbert.
 > If that's true (and I think it is), Mats should indeed to an onsub-pull
 > to feed the smoketest.

I agree with this position. If someone wants a repository of their package
where commits don’t provoke the smoketest, it’s easy and reasonable to
clone such a repository under one’s own space on bitbucket.

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