Selectively merging distinct repositories

[Francois Tigeot]

Hi,

My problem is quite simple, but I have the bad impression it is not an
expected situation.
I have not found any satisfactory solution yet.

I'm in the process of publishing some existing software and I'd like to
use Mercurial for the final source and documentation management.

I have currently two existing repositories:
- a public one: hg with some small bits of code
- a private one: svn with about 5 years of history

I want to merge both repositories and preserve their history as much as
possible.

There is howewer some confidential information (such as passwords) in the
SVN repo I have to filter out during the process, so for some files I want
to preserve only the most recent revisions.

Some directories may conflict or are not needed anymore, so I'd also like
to exclude them from the merge or only use their version from the public
repository.

Is this possible and if so, how ?

Thanks in advance !

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Francois Tigeot