How do I ...
Augie Fackler
lists at durin42.com
Thu Jan 14 20:14:38 UTC 2016
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Another problem which I'd like to resolve relates I think to 're-basing'
> or at least that is what I think I need.
>
> I have an SVN project which has some very useful commit history, but
> includes details across several directories handling legacy 'build'
> processes and other sample applications. One directory contains the
> active PHP application, so what I would like to do is put the code for
> the application into a top directory and only retain the commit history
> relating to that.
>
> This is one of those bits I use BC to copy the section I need to a new
> root directory on the web server and monitor changes via that, but
> making that a clean repository in it's own right will be tidier going
> forward.
>
> http://hg.lsces.org.uk/hg/phpgedview/file/e71f42314a87/phpGedView for
> reference.
I'm going to restate what I think you want to do to make sure I
understand, then give you a solution:
You want to take one subdirectory of your old Subversion repository
and turn that into a Mercurial repository with full history.
That's doable with both convert and hgsubversion. Either one should work fine.
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