Splitting a repository in two (by directory)

[Tom Widmer]

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> At the moment, the repository looks like this:
> 
>    /hg/myapp
>      /admin
>        /adm_libs
>        config.inc.php
>        index.php
>      /lib
>        /smarty
>          ... loads of files in here ...
>        security.inc.php
>        tests.inc.php
>      /templates
>        mainpage.tpl
>      index.php
>      install.php
> 
> What I want are two repositories, "myapp-admin" and "myapp-core", with 
> /hg/myapp/admin/* in "myapp-admin", and the rest in "myapp-core". So far 

> So finally, on to the million-dollar question: is there a better way to 
> do this?

hg convert's --filemap option should let you do what you want with only 
a couple of commands (convert can do hg-hg 'conversions' as well as 
conversions from other VCSes).

Tom