cloning subrepos doesnt set default in hgrc

[Johannes Totz]

Johannes Totz wrote:

> Matt Mackall wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:37 +0000, Johannes Totz wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Cloning a repo that has subrepos does not set the default path inside
>>> the subrepo's hgrc.
>>> It would be nice if it did though! E.g. set its value to what is
>>> specified in .hgsub as its URL.
>>> 
>>> Is there any reason why this might be a bad idea?
>>
>> Nope. Try this:
>>
>> diff -r 359c56728257 mercurial/subrepo.py
>> --- a/mercurial/subrepo.py	Thu Dec 10 17:01:21 2009 -0600
>> +++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py	Thu Dec 10 19:48:39 2009 -0600
>> @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@
>>          else:
>>              util.makedirs(root)
>>              self._repo = hg.repository(r.ui, root, create=True)
>> +            f = file(os.path.join(root, '.hg', 'hgrc'), 'w')
>> +            f.write('[paths]\ndefault = %s\n' % state[0])
>> +            f.close()
>>          self._repo._subparent = r
>>          self._repo._subsource = state[0]
>
> Thanks! I'll give it a try soon (I have the all-binary TortoiseHG
> installation only, at the moment).

I still haven't got around to actually test that patch. But I believe it
went into 1.4.2?

That particular feature of 1.4.2 doesn't work for me though. A
default-path entry is added in the subrepo's hgrc but it's empty. I've
tried various combinations of relative and absolute paths in .hgsub but
that didn't change anything...