Re: [Savannah-help-public] multiple hg repos?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:04:49AM +0200, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:04:48AM +0200, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> I'm one of the developers of the GNU Octave project, hosted on
>>> Savannah. We have been recently heavily discussing future development
>>> strategy of Octave and have come to the problem of hosting multiple
>>> mercurial repositories on Savannah. Is it possible? What needs to be
>>> done? We need a secondary "stable" repository. We have also considered
>>> just using branches, but these don't solve the problem well (can't do
>>> unsymmetric merges).
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
>>> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
>>> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
>>> Prague, Czech Republic
>>> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems to me that we envisionned sub-repositories when setting up
>> mercurial support through the following layout:
>>
>> /srv/hg/octave/.hg # Main
>> /srv/hg/octave/subrepo1/.hg
>> /srv/hg/octave/subrepo2/.hg
>>
>> Aleix, can you confirm? :)
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> yes, that was the initial idea, but as no one needed at that time and,  
> sincerely, I did not have much more time to work on it we just left it  
> for the future.
>
> I am quite busy until end of june, so until then I think, if Sylvain  
> agrees, that we can do it by hand, at least for GNU Octave. I have  
> tested it with a project of mine and works fine.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds good.
I created /srv/hg/octave/stable/.hg/

I'm not sure hgweb supports this though?
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/stable/ -> same as octave/

-- 
Sylvain