How do people manage changes to common library files stored across mutiple (Mercurial) repositories?

Question

This is perhaps not a question unique to Mercurial, but that\'s the SCM that I\'ve been using most lately.

I work on multiple projects and tend to copy source code f

Answer 1

I'd recommend against your "copy the sourcecode" practice but use binary distribution for your custom libraries instead. These binaries are checked in along the sourcecode.

• reduces build-time
• no overhead of tracking changes in all copies of the library
• you can use different versions of the same library in different projects.

EDIT: And for the issue with "common" or "toolbox" libaries in general, read this post from ayende.