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Mercurial can include other repositories in a checkout. These repositories are called subrepositories.

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What's a good way to organize projects with shared dependencies in Mercurial?

Currently, I'm moving from a legacy version control system and moving my group's project to mercurial. As one example of the kinds of code I'm moving, I have a 25+ project Visual Studio solution, containing several separate application areas that…
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Mercurial Subrepos - How do you create them and how do they work?

Situation I have two .NET solutions (Foo and Bar) and a common library that contains ProjectA, ProjectB, and ProjectC. Foo and Bar reference one or more library projects, but the library projects are not located within the Foo and Bar Solution…
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Split large repo into multiple subrepos and preserve history (Mercurial)

We have a large base of code that contains several shared projects, solution files, etc in one directory in SVN. We're migrating to Mercurial. I would like to take this opportunity to reorganize our code into several repositories to make cloning for…
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How can I prevent mercurial from pushing subrepos?

In my repository I've added several sub-repositories for modules that I'm using. I'm always going to treat these subrepos as "pull only". I don't plan to make any changes to them but want to retain the ability to easily pull new changes if a new…
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What is the correct way to handle nested Hg repositories with Mercurial/TortoiseHg?

I'm struggling on how to correctly track nested repositories using TortoiseHg. I have a main repository that tracks my whole project. This project contains several little plugins that are stored inside a plugins/ subdirectory. I would love to track…
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Hg sub-repository dependencies

There have been a couple of questions about Hg sub-repo dependencies in the past (here and here) but the accepted answers don't seem to address the problem for me. A project of mine has 4 dependencies: A, B, C, D. D is dependent on A, B and C; and B…
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Does a mercurial subrepository have to be a subdirectory of the main repository?

My project is made up of code in the following locations C:\Dev\ProjectA C:\Lib\LibraryB C:\Lib\LibraryC Presently each of these folders is a completely independent Mercurial repository. Project A changes all the time, Library B and Library C…
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Mercurial: Subrepo error -- "abort: commit with new subrepo [path] excluded"

I'm trying to setup the subrepositories in my Mercurial project repo for the project's dependencies. But when I try to commit the .hgsub file I keep getting this error: abort: commit with new subrepo lib/dependency-dir excluded Details: Inside my…
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Pushing mercurial repo without pushing subrepos

I'm using Mercurial 1.6. I have a repo with a few subrepos (11). I would like to push the parent repo to the default remote repo without pushing the child repos. Reasons for wanting to do this include: I'm using SSH repos, and it takes a long time…
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Any way to pull/update all subrepos?

I'm looking into the viability of switching from svn to mercurial for my organization, but there's one hangup I can't seem to find a solution for. Is there any way to pull and update a repo and all subrepos without manually pulling and updating each…
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Join multiple subrepos into one and preserve history in Mercurial

Currently I have project consisting of multiple repositories, e.g.: +---Project (main repo) +---Core (subrepo) +---Web (subrepo) \---Tests (subrepo) Unfortunately the code between subrepos is quite coupled so it doesn't work nicely…
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How to convert an existing Mercurial repository to use subrepositories and keep the history intact?

I've been reading about subrepositories and how to extract an existing folder from a Mercurial repository to a subrepository using the convert extension and a filemap. I can successfully do this. If I have the following folder…
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Mercurial hg Subrepository issue - "abort: unknown revision'

Note: I asked this yesterday over at kiln.stackexchange.com, but haven't gotten an answer, and it's holding up my work. So I figured I'd give it a shot here. My main mercurial repository has a bunch of subrepositories in it. During initial setup, I…
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subrepo, hg clone and symlinks

I'm quite new to mercurial, I've read a lot on this topic but I've been unable to find a clear answer. The mercurial guide says: "For efficiency, hardlinks are used for cloning whenever the source and destination are on the same filesystem (note…
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tortoisehg and subrepos

I can't get Tortoisehg (1.0) to work with subrepos I have a directory structure like this: root .hg .hgsub .hgsubstate Customer1 Project1 .hg foo.txt Project2 .hg Customer2 Project3 .hg the .hgsub file…
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