comparison mercurial/help/subrepos.txt @ 32005:2406dbba49bd

serve: add support for Mercurial subrepositories

I've been using `hg serve --web-conf ...` with a simple '/=projects/**' [paths]
configuration for awhile without issue.  Let's ditch the need for the manual
configuration in this case, and limit the repos served to the actual subrepos.

This doesn't attempt to handle the case where a new subrepo appears while the
server is running.  That could probably be handled with a hook if somebody wants
it.  But it's such a rare case, it probably doesn't matter for the temporary
serves.

The main repo is served at '/', just like a repository without subrepos.  I'm
not sure why the duplicate 'adding ...' lines appear on Linux.  They don't
appear on Windows (see 594dd384803c), so they are optional.

Subrepositories that are configured with '../path' or absolute paths are not
cloneable from the server.  (They aren't cloneable locally either, unless they
also exist at their configured source, perhaps via the share extension.)  They
are still served, so that they can be browsed, or cloned individually.  If we
care about that cloning someday, we can probably just add the extra entries to
the webconf dictionary.  Even if the entries use '../' to escape the root, only
the related subrepositories would end up in the dictionary.

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:push: Mercurial will automatically push all subrepositories first
    when the parent repository is being pushed. This ensures new
    subrepository changes are available when referenced by top-level
    repositories.  Push is a no-op for Subversion subrepositories.

:status: status does not recurse into subrepositories unless
    -S/--subrepos is specified. Subrepository changes are displayed as
    regular Mercurial changes on the subrepository
    elements. Subversion subrepositories are currently silently
    ignored.

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:push: Mercurial will automatically push all subrepositories first
    when the parent repository is being pushed. This ensures new
    subrepository changes are available when referenced by top-level
    repositories.  Push is a no-op for Subversion subrepositories.

:serve: serve does not recurse into subrepositories unless
    -S/--subrepos is specified.  Git and Subversion subrepositories
    are currently silently ignored.

:status: status does not recurse into subrepositories unless
    -S/--subrepos is specified. Subrepository changes are displayed as
    regular Mercurial changes on the subrepository
    elements. Subversion subrepositories are currently silently
    ignored.