Subtree clone in 2016

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 16:09, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder if Mercurial got some modern way to
>> get a clone of subtree since 2012?
>> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PartialClone
>
> This is in progress at https://bitbucket.org/Google/narrowhg, but it's probably not ready enough that you should count on it being reliable.

Nice. And what is the criteria to know when it is ready?

>>
>> I need to make a Python module from Roundup
>> repository into a separate project, so I need to
>> clone its subtree and push it somewhere else.
>
> Ah, but you want to produce a new history of part of the repo and push it as its own repo somewhere? Then convert is your best bet, because you're making a new repo, not merely working locally on a partial checkout.

The workflow I want to achieve is that module is developed in Roundup
repository, which is in Mercurial, in subtree roundup/web. But I also
want to publish it independently and put on GitHub for more pull
requests. Putting on GitHub means it needs separate README.md and
UNLICENSE file to be put in the root. I also need to be able to sync
PRs back to Mercurial without those new README.md and UNLICENSE.
Ideally all that mapping should be somehow available from repository,
so that I continue working on the project from another machine without
complicated setup.

-- 
anatoly t.