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jglick commented on JENKINS-4838:
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I do not know of anyone actively working on this. Since my organization does
not use subrepos I am not inclined to work on it myself.
I would expect it to be a relatively difficult change, i.e. you would need to
understand all aspects of the current plugin; handle (or explicitly forbid)
interaction with various existing features such as caching & sharing, polling
exclusions, and browsers, which are all written to assume that the portion of
the workspace under consideration is the checkout of one node of one
repository; and write a full JUnit suite detailing the expected behavior,
ideally before starting to make changes to main sources.
Note that for jobs formerly using the Forest extension the recommendation is to
use the Multi-SCM plugin instead - basically configuring a separate instance of
the Mercurial plugin for each repo in the "forest". This seems to work fine, if
perhaps a little more verbose to configure. But subrepos work differently due
to `.hgsubstate`, so I doubt you could use the Multi-SCM plugin for this
purpose.
Also beware of subrepos using foreign SCMs like Subversion; it is not clear
whether or how the Mercurial plugin (in cooperation with other SCM plugins)
could behave correctly with such a setup.
> Subrepo support
> ---------------
>
> Key: JENKINS-4838
> URL: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-4838
> Project: Jenkins
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: mercurial
> Affects Versions: current
> Environment: Platform: All, OS: All
> Reporter: jglick
> Assignee: jglick
>
> In addition to supporting the Forest extension, it would be good to support
> the
> new subrepo system in Hg 1.3+.
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