On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Jed Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > One of the concerns we discussed earlier is the additional > > requirement: 'subrepo' usage should be same/similar to 'single repo' > > usage. This clearly is not possible with (A). [we have to buy into the > > sub-repo model and use it appropriately]. > > > > i.e be aware which commands work with subrepos by default - and which > > ones need '-s' for subrepo > > > > I think most users only need to pull and update which will do the right > thing with subrepo.
the above requirment was discussed wrt developers [aka barry] Also - I'm not realy sure if 'pull/update' would always do the right thing for users. I'll have to recheck this.. Satish > > > - and then be aware that buildsystem you > > pull is not the latest [only the latest commited to petsc-dev] etc. > > > > This is the right model anyway. If a BuildSystem patch is required by > petsc-dev, there should be a commit in the petsc-dev repo stating that.
