ANN: deps extension

[Martin Vejnár]

Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> The deps extension sounds useful (I didn't yet know about it). 

Arne, thank you for replying.

> Do I understand it right, that it allows to pull in other hg repositories into 
> folders inside my repo? 

Yes. For each changeset in the main repository, it will help you record 
the revisions and directories, in which your dependencies were at the 
time (using 'hg dep' and 'hg depcommit' commands). You can then run 'hg 
depupdate' to return your dependencies to this recorded state (and pull 
them from source if necessary). You can also run this command after you 
cloned some else's repository (assuming of course they used the hgdeps 
extension :-) ).

Note also, that the dependencies are not required to be Mercurial. I 
personally tried a svn dependency, though I'm not sure know how hard it 
would be to use other versioning systems.

> Is there any danger when I accidently tell hg to add a file from a depencendy? 

I suppose there is, I didn't realize it until now. I could probably add 
some checking for this. For Mercurial dependencies this is a non-issue, 
'hg add' will not allow you to add a file from a nested repo.

Best regards,
-- 
Martin