On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

> My concern is simple.  (1) Someone adds some fixes to BuildSystem, commits 
> and pushes.  (2) Someones uses PETSc with the BuildSystem subrepository does 
> a pull in PETSc and NEVER gets the stuff that was put into BuildSystem.
> 
> Huuuuuuuuuuh? How would they "NEVER" get the stuff put into BuildSystem? The 
> solution would be to "cd into Buildsystem and do an 'hg pull' there." How is 
> that any different from our current advice of "pull the newest BuildSystem 
> changes?"

   Because you would always have to do both, pull in petsc-dev and pull in 
Buildsystem (to get all the things pushed into BuildSystem not from petsc-dev). 
No different than today.

  Barry

> 
> Sean


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