(+martinvonz for visibility) On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:23:45PM +0530, Pulkit Goyal wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I hope you are doing well. > > I am working on implementing the ShareSafePlan > (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ShareSafePlan) which aims to fix > bugs caused by shared repositories not sharing config and > requirements. The plan page does a good job in explaining it. > > The plan is to share config files and requirements between shared > repositories and introducing a repository requirement for that. > > Sharing config files > =============== > > We need a way to share config of original repository with the shared > ones. The idea is to make shared repositories read `.hg/hgrc` of > original repository and add a `.hg/nonsharedrc` for that repository > only config. This way, by default all configs are shared unless > specified in a different non-shared file. > Another way which I can think of is having a `.hg/store/hgrc` where > user adds config to be shared among shares. This way the configs which > user explicitly added to `.hg/store/hgrc` will be shared. > Which one sounds better?
I suspect adding a new non-shared rc file is better, as it'd be somewhat less surprising? I'm having trouble envisioning a usecase for a non-shared config file, but that's probably lack of imagination on my part. > > Sharing requirements > ================= > > The idea is to have `.hg/store/requires` and `.hg/requires` for store > level and working copy requirements. > > Above mentioned work will introduce a new repository requirement > `sharedsafe` which will convey that the repositories can be shared > safely and preventing old clients from making shares of this repo. > Initially the requirement thing will be gated behind a config option. > The plan also involves teaching debugupgraderepo to upgrade > repositories to use the new requirement. > > This is mostly a dump of the plan page and I look forward to various > ideas, improvements and discussion around how to implement this plan. > This all seems sensible to me. > Thanks! > Pulkit > _______________________________________________ > Mercurial-devel mailing list > Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
