On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > A) make buildsystem a subrepo (svn external for those familiar with svn) > > There have already been many discussions on petsc-dev about how hg > subrepos suck and don't satisfy all our needs. > I think "our needs" are mostly wrong in this case. ;-) Specifically, I think it is a long-running bug that the petsc-dev repository does not record when a BuildSystem change is needed. The implicitly synchronized or fragile "compare dates on the commit" model is bad. Anyway, I thought the real concerns were that old versions of Hg didn't manage subrepos consistently, not that the general model was wrong. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120606/b7ce5d40/attachment.html>
