splicemap to "inject" files?

[Tom Widmer]

On 19/08/2011 14:45, Tom Udale wrote:
> Ok, that worked great for injecting a file (or whatever) into the
> history. I was able to clone to some arbitrary revision in the past
> (which I did not know about), add arbitrary commits to the clone and
> then tack on the rest of the original history to the end of the clone.
> It looked like this (I am using the notation main:x to indicate the
> nodeid for main repository change set x in these examples):
>
> hg clone -r main:0 main clone
> rem add whatever to clone
> rem make splice file (child parent): main:1 clone:tip
> hg convert --splicemap splice main clone
>
> That worked perfectly.
>
> So now to be a tad more sophisticated. To do this repeatedly without
> having to re-clone every time, I can just add a --rev on the convert right?
>
> For example, given our 0-5 change set repository, I want to inject
> changes between CS 0-1 _and_ 4-5.
>
> Can I just
>
> rem --- first modify between 0-1 ---
> hg clone -r main:0 main clone
> rem add whatever to clone
> rem make splice file with: main:1 clone:tip
> hg convert --splicemap splice --rev main:4 main clone
> rem clone should contain up to main:4 now
>
> rem --- now modify between 4-5 ---
> rem add whatever else to clone
> rem make splice file with: main:5 clone:tip
> hg convert --splicemap splice main clone
>
> That should do it right? I can just go on and on pulling slices from
> main onto clone until I have everything chip-chopped together.

That should work fine AFAIK.

Tom