[darcs-users] Repository Split

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 27/03/06, Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:53 +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> > I have a repository which was growing and growing a
>
> > The simple way is to copy them to a new directory and start a brand
> > new repository. Another way, which I don't know if it is possible is
> > to filter the patches which respect the files I want to move and move
> > them with the files...
>
> Or you could just fork the repository...
>
> assuming repository R, copy it (or darcs get or whatever) to A and B.
> darcs remove from A that which you want in B and don't want in A,
> darcs remove from B that which you don't want in B,
>
> and you're done... and you don't loose any history.
>

Ah, thanks, you're right. :)

> Of course, maybe you don't care about history, in which case just
> copying the files to a new repo dir (as you suggest) will work.
>
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