hg convert misses files

[Scott Palmer]

On 2011-05-28, at 8:57 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:

> 
> I'm tryin to extract a directory from an hg repo and create a new repo
> from it.  I followed the basic info from
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension, and use
> 
> hg convert --filemap /tmp/map /path/to/repo/subdir /tmp/subdir-repo
> 
> where /tmp/map contains
> 
>  include subdir
>  rename subdir .
> 
> It looks like the conversion succeeds.  But when I look at the new
> repo, it's missing many files.
> 
> What am I doing wrong with the conversion?

You should use:
hg convert --filemap /tmp/map /path/to/repo /tmp/subdir-repo

You are going one level too deep in the main repo path that you are converting.

Regards,

Scott