Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: Philippe Vaucher (philippe.vaucher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-27 05:54:54

>
> 1) Extract this modular repo structure from Boost:
>
>   spirit
>     boost
>       spirit
>     libs
>       spirit
>
> 2) that can merge both ways (upstream and downstream
> to and from the boost SVN trunk); needless to say, with all
> the histories intact.
>

To do that you first need to split the current repository where each lib
has its own repository... making point 2 impossible or just too painful.

Your workflow would be possible in a simple manner once we moved to git/hg
where each lib has its own repository, which would be better imho (have
lib-specific history instead of history from all the libs).

Philippe