comparison mercurial/help/subrepos.txt @ 16503:c27a769d9703 stable

doc: add description about location of management files for subrepo

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Subrepositories are made of three components:

1. Nested repository checkouts. They can appear anywhere in the
   parent working directory.

2. Nested repository references. They are defined in ``.hgsub`` and
   tell where the subrepository checkouts come from. Mercurial
   subrepositories are referenced like:

     path/to/nested = https://example.com/nested/repo/path

   Note that ``.hgsub`` does not exist by default in Mercurial
   repositories, you have to create and add it to the parent
   repository before using subrepositories.

3. Nested repository states. They are defined in ``.hgsubstate`` and
   capture whatever information is required to restore the
   subrepositories to the state they were committed in a parent
   repository changeset. Mercurial automatically record the nested
   repositories states when committing in the parent repository.

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Subrepositories are made of three components:

1. Nested repository checkouts. They can appear anywhere in the
   parent working directory.

2. Nested repository references. They are defined in ``.hgsub``, which
   should be placed in the root of working directory, and
   tell where the subrepository checkouts come from. Mercurial
   subrepositories are referenced like:

     path/to/nested = https://example.com/nested/repo/path

   Note that ``.hgsub`` does not exist by default in Mercurial
   repositories, you have to create and add it to the parent
   repository before using subrepositories.

3. Nested repository states. They are defined in ``.hgsubstate``, which
   is placed in the root of working directory, and
   capture whatever information is required to restore the
   subrepositories to the state they were committed in a parent
   repository changeset. Mercurial automatically record the nested
   repositories states when committing in the parent repository.