[darcs-users] Including another repos in a subdirectory

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Tue Jul 20 09:39:24 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:15:36PM +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:
> >> I will suggests an upstream tree re-layout: having the project
> >> kept under a common "/ProductName/" tree would make everything
> >> work smooth...  but in general, isn't it possible to "redirect"
> >> in some way incoming patches down to a sub directory?
> 
> David> What I would really recommend, would be to not have the
> David> upstream in your darcs repository at all.  You could
> David> instead have it in its own darcs repository, in a
> David> subdirectory of your repository (assuming you want it
> David> there).
> 
> Do you nesting various darcs repos into a larger one, like this
> 
> myrepos
> |-- _darcs
> |-- Extensions
> |-- Products
> |   |-- ATContentTypes
> |   |   |-- _darcs
> |   |   |-- ...
> |   |-- Archetypes
> |   |   |-- _darcs
> |   |   |-- ...
> 
> ? Is this acceptable for darcs? I mean, running darcs in the top level
> directory won't be crawling down the hierarchy, or disturbed by the
> presence of other _darcs directories?

This is precisely what I was thinking.  Darcs is quite happy with this.
-- 
David Roundy
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