'Selective' branching of files: is it possible in Mercurial?

[Peer Sommerlund]

2009/3/15 Vladimir <makhnich at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> I would like to know whether it is possible to make several files in
> repository to be "branched" (i.e. exist on several branches), while the
> rest
> of files are in sync with default branch (and have only one "head"
> revision).
>
> Google gave me no answer, neither did Mercurial documentation. In fact, I
> suppose the answer is 'no', but may be you will offer some tricks.
>

Have you considered reorganizing your repository into multiple directories
and using the forest extension?

If you still want to build from a single directory, you could write a
Makefile which copies files from repository to the build directory as
needed.

Regards,
Peer
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