Conceptual Question about Repos and structuring development workspaces...

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:53 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
> Assuming I went for the "one big repository" approach, is it
> easy/possible to later split off a part of the whole (say, one
> project) into its own repository, while preserving history?
> 
> Given that this isn't possible with something like Subversion, it'd be
> hard to claim that it was a "problem" with Mercurial if I couldn't do
> this, but it would be neat if it could :-)

I think that you could clone everything and rm in the clone the stuff
you do not want.

Mathieu
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