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

[Aleix Conchillo Flaqué]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 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/

Thanks, it needed some permission fixes though, I have already updated them.

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

It does, but in Hg 1.2, that is,

[collections]
/srv/hg = /srv/hg/**

is sufficient (in /etc/mercurial/hgwebdir.conf).

By now, I have added an specific "paths" section:

[paths]
octave/stable = /srv/hg/octave/stable

So everything should work now.

Jaroslav, you should be able to work with octave/stable branch now. Let 
me know if you have any issue.

Cheers,

Aleix