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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Mercurial and subversion subrepos

It is not yet mentioned in the Mercurial book, but Mercurial has a subrepos feature to pull code from other repositories into your project as a nested repository. It is a bit similar to SVN externals and git submodules.

Better yet, it also works with subversion! There are still some bugs to be worked out though: you better not move your SVN subrepo around in your mercurial repository. For all the ugly details, see my bug report.

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