Hg split ?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

Maybe a combination of hg export and filterdiff could help here.
Haven't tried it myself, though.
-peo

On 10/19/07, Jonas Pfenniger <zimbatm at oree.ch> wrote:
> Hello world !
>
> I am investigating mercurial and one use case that is not really clear
> to me is when you want to split a repository (Btw, the hgbook[1] was
> really helpful). I hope that you can enlighten me :)
>
> So imagine you build a video player (fictive example). You have all
> kind of stuff in your repo like the gui and various video format
> libraries. Then, you decide to make a new product, which will be a
> video server. Since you want to reuse your work on the video formats
> and that you two products have independent release schedules, how
> could you possibly share that part of the code ?
>
> The first solution that seems the most easy, would be to develop the
> video server in the same repository. But since the two products have
> different schedules, I don't really see how to manage it.
>
> The second solution I see would require to split the initial
> repository in two and maintain a kind of link like svn:externals
> (except that the feature doesn't exist in hg and that the svn
> implementation is not ideal). Something like :
>
> $ cd vidclient
> vidclient$ ls
> gui/
> libvid/
> vidclient$ hg split libvid ../libvid
> ** splitting repo **
> vidclient$ ls libvid  # files are still there with a new .hg dir
> vidclient$ ls ../libvid # and here
> vidclient$ cd ..
> $ mkdir vidserver; cd vidserver; hg init
> vidserver$ hg link libvid ../libvid at revno # specific revision unlike svn
>
> --
> Cheers,
>   zimbatm
>
> [1] : http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
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