Help: How to manage a set of files within several different repos

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Freitag 06 Februar 2009 17:16:57 schrieb Ted Pavlic:
> each of which use a "suite" of Makefiles:
>
> Makefile.doc
> Makefile.dir
> Makefile.www
> 
> 	Ideally, I would like to be able to change Makefile.doc *once* and have
> those changes ripple through all of the other repos. I know that I could
> put all of them elsewhere and have each repo depend on that "elsewhere,"
> but I distribute these repos publicly and I'd like them to be able to
> stand alone. 

You could create a "project template" repository which only contains the 
makefiles
template/
	Makefile.doc
	Makefile.dir
	Makefile.www

This template repository you then pull --force into each of the repositories 
and merge it. 

When you change a makefile, you do it in the template and pull + merge / fetch 
the change into your repositories. 

The only catch is that you have get the fix in the template folder before 
letting it ripple through, but you should be able to just transplant it from 
another repo, when you did the fix there. 

To make this more convenient, you can add the path to the templates to the 
paths for each repo: 

.hg/hgrc: 
[paths]
template = path/to/template

You can then just pull changes from there via "hg pull template"

Best wishes, 
Arne
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