Converting a private repo to a public one

[Vadim Lebedev]

I wonder if

  hg --config=convert.hg.startrev=R10 convert http://server/private_repo public_repo

will completely avoid brnging Changset < R10  to my local machine


Thanks
Vadim


On 10/02/13 01:31, Isaac Jurado wrote:
> Replying Michael Diamond:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a repository that contains private information (think passwords
>> and the like) and I've since tidied it up so that nothing in the
>> working directory is of concern, and I'd like to release it publicly.
>> But the history contains private content.  I was hoping hg convert
>> would enable me to remove those early revisions, but it seems like
>> that's not possible.
> Are you sure?
>
>      hg help convert
>
>      ...snip...
>
>      Mercurial Source
>      ################
>
>      The Mercurial source recognizes the following configuration options, which
>      you can set on the command line with "--config":
>
>      convert.hg.ignoreerrors
>                    ignore integrity errors when reading. Use it to fix
>                    Mercurial repositories with missing revlogs, by converting
>                    from and to Mercurial. Default is False.
>      convert.hg.saverev
>                    store original revision ID in changeset (forces target IDs
>                    to change). It takes a boolean argument and defaults to
>                    False.
>      convert.hg.startrev
>                    convert start revision and its descendants. It takes a hg
>                    revision identifier and defaults to 0.
>
>> Currently, I have:
>>
>> R1* > R2* > ...* > R10 > R11 > R12 > ...
> Seems pretty straightforward:
>
>      hg --config=convert.hg.startrev=R10 convert private_repo public_repo
>
> Cheers.
>