Best Practices for Project Feature Sub-Modules with Mercurial and Eclipse?

Question

I have a couple of ANT projects for several different clients; the directory structure I have for my projects looks like this:

L___standard_workspace
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Answer 1

Yep, it looks like subrepos are what you are looking for, but I think maybe that is the right answer for the wrong question and I strongly suspect that you'll run into similar issues that occur when using svn:externals

Instead I would recommend that you "publish" your combined and minified JS files to an artefact repository and use a dependency manager such as Ivy to pull specific versions of your artefacts into your master project. This approach give you far greater control over the sub-project versions your master project uses.

If you need to make bug fixes to a sub-project for a particular client, you can just make the fixes on the mainline for that sub-project, publish a new version (ideally via an automated build pipeline) and update their master project to use the new version. Oh, you wanted to test the new version with the their master project before publishing? In that case, before you push your fix, combine and minify your sub-project locally, publish it to a local repository and have the client's master project pick up that version for your testing.