noob mecurial migration question

[Adam Downer]

Hello everybody,

I am about to embark upon a conversion of a CVS repo to a mercurial one. Our intention is to replace our branching strategy with a pure cloning strategy. At the moment we have the main trunk and then a regional 'trunk' for UK based development and another for US based development which eventually is rolled into the region non-specific enterprise version on the main trunk.

My plan, so far, is this:

- Import modules from the main trunk as a single repo and keep it up to date with incremental imports following on from that.
- Following a major release from the regional 'trunks' (i.e. the UK one) the changes will be merged to the main trunk in cvs.
- The release will then be brought over to mercurial via incremental update and a new regional trunk will be cloned in mercurial.
- New projects will be started on the mercurial repos as they are created.

In order for this plan to work well I would like to be able to convert from one 'branch', in this case HEAD, from CVS in order to regrow the layout using the new cloning system.

I have used hg convert with success to get a lovely shiny mercurial repo but it has too much in it for my needs. I only want changes from HEAD in this initial repo but I can not see a method to achieve this in the convert usage pages. Also I would like to take multiple CVS modules and convert them into one mercurial repo. Again, I can't see from the convert usage guide if this is possible.

Thanks in advance.

Adam D

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