> In a really old and ancient version of dxr, one could configure it to pull
> in changes from version control as part of the build.  Is that still in
> there somewhere and I'm not seeing it?

This might have been part of DXR itself in the past, though I have no knowledge 
of it. Currently, we have a shell script that checks out the mozilla-central 
sources in an ad hoc manner and then kicks off the DXR build: 
http://hg.mozilla.org/build/tools/file/b2fae78a2db9/scripts/dxr/dxr.sh.

There are some concrete benefits to intertwingling DXR more with version 
control. For one thing, it would be one way to do incremental builds 
(https://github.com/mozilla/dxr/pull/121), which would drastically drop our 
build times. Our hg plugin already interacts with hg a little bit to do blame 
links and such. If you have a proposal in which VCS integration would be a big 
benefit, I'm happy to listen. Of course, we'd want to stay decoupled enough to 
be able to support any arbitrary VCS, so there are certainly benefits to 
keeping our scope small as well.

Erik
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