drop history from repository from a given revision

[Kong, Howard]

Thank you Patrick,

I will try your suggestion when I get back to the office mid-week.

hk.




On 5/16/11 10:44 AM, "Patrick Mézard" <pmezard at gmail.com> wrote:

>Le 16/05/11 05:39, Kong, Howard a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am in the process of making a project open source, but need to drop
>>the history of the project for company policy reasons.  How do I drop
>>the history of my project from a given revision?  I am willing to even
>>just drop all history (but it's too complicated to restart the project
>>from scratch).
>> 
>> I've tried the advice given here:
>>http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-September/027572.html,
>>but it doesn't seem to work for me.  If that is the recommended way to
>>do this, then please send me an example.  Here is what I've tried, and
>>it doesn't work:
>> 
>> hg --config convert.hg.startrev=160 convert Marketplace3.bitbucket
>>~/Marketplace3.bitbucket2
>> 
>> When I run this, all I get is an empty directory in
>>~/Marketplace3.bitbucket2.  I've also tried adding ­s and ­d to the mix,
>>but to no avail.
>> 
>> I'm running MacHg on a Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
>> 
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Try:
>
>  $ hg -R ~/Marketplace3.bitbucket2 tip
>
>The converted repository is probably there but no revision is checked
>out. See hg help update.
>
>--
>Patrick Mézard