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Re: taking temperature on externals

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:07:19 -0400

Greg Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 23:40, Bert Huijben <rhuijben_at_sharpsvn.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> WC-NG should make it much easier to fix these scenarios as a working copy and all its externals will all be handled in the same database.
>
> Yup. I'm going to be doing a full revamp of the "what to commit?"
> logic in wc-ng. Except for needing to maintain cmdline compatibility,
> I see no reason that we cannot do multiple-repository commits, and to
> commit properly/atomically across switched/external boundaries of
> items from the same repos.

The client code already theoretically (and perhaps only partially) supports
this concept. I rewrote it long ago to do commits based on item URL (as
opposed to on-disk location), including the ability to sort things into
different per-repository buckets.

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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