[pypy-dev] Switching to a distributed version control system

[Seo Sanghyeon]

2008/9/12 Jacob Hallén <jacob at openend.se>:
> The one feature of svn that we would miss is the inclusion of foreign version
> controlled trees, like we do with the pylib tree. We would have to do this in
> a different way than before, since none of the systems have this feature. I'm
> not sure it makes sense to have the close svn coupling between the projects
> any more, in any case.

Mercurial has "forest" extension which allows nested Mercurial repositories.
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtension

It is an external extension, but it is used by high profile projects like Sun's
OpenJDK.

-- 
Seo Sanghyeon