Move folder out of one repo and into its own repo

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 17:28 -0500, Matt Schulte wrote:
> > Look at the --filemap option to hg convert. It can be used on either a
> > cvs->hg or hg->hg conversion.
> >    
> So would it look something like this:
> 
> I have a repository /sourcecode
> 
> filemap.txt:
> exclude "sourcecode"
> include "sourcecode/driverX"
> rename "sourcecode/driverX" "driverX"

I guess so, I've never used it myself. 

> Then run:
> 
> hg convert --config convert.hg.startrev=0 --filemap filtmap.txt sourcecode

Not sure what the startrev thing is for, it should default to the
beginning of time.

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