Applying patches to foreign repositories
Germán Poó-Caamaño
gpoo at ubiobio.cl
Wed Apr 9 14:12:53 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:00 -0400, Sean E. Russell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have what I suspect is not an unusual situation. I maintain a library for a
> project, and my source code exists in both a master repository (mine, HG) and
> the project's repository (Subversion). The directory layout looks like this:
>
> Subversion: project/lib/mylib/
> Mercurial: myproject/src/mylib/
>
> The 'project' directory contains a bunch of other directories and files I'm
> not very interested in, and the same goes for 'myproject' and the other
> repository. The intersection of common code is at the 'mylib' directory.
>
> I'm seeking suggestions for how to manage this -- pushing and pulling diffs to
> and from project/lib/mylib. I had thought about using a forest, but at this
> point I already have several years worth of history in 'myproject' (converted
> from Subversion), and I'm not sure how I'd best break that up.
>
> Please feel free to point me at existing information, FAQs, or other
> discussions about this if such exists. My rudimentary queries of the mailing
> list didn't turn up much ... I'm drawing a blank on good search terms to
> filter the archives on.
Take a look at:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hgsvn/
--
Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile
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