On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

Am I missing understanding something. Any option in hg to get hg commands inside the subrepo behave like ones on the outside?

Can you make MatView_SeqAIJ look up the stack and figure out that it's a parallel matrix and print itself appropriately? While you're at it, maybe you can also print information about the DM and the SNES that it came from. ;-) BuildSystem is still its own repository that you can interact with without informing petsc. Think of committing from inside BuildSystem meaning that you explicitly don't want to sync with petsc-dev yet. Committing from the parent directory indicates that you do want to sync. I think this will be a rare problem and it's easy enough for the next person to fix. Certainly no worse than the current system, and the subrepo model has a bunch of other advantages.