"Stripping" changesets from the past of a repository

[Fabrizio Giudici]

Martin Geisler wrote:
> Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giudici at tidalwave.it> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi all. A few months ago I've converted almost all of my projects that
>> were previously using Subversion to Mercurial and I'm pretty fine. A
>> residual problem is that my Mercurial repos are much larger than they
>> should be as in Subversion there were lots of binary files committed.
>> I'd like to get rid of every trace of those files, if possible:
>>
>> 1. Either by stripping a specific set of resources from a given revision
>> **backwards**
>>     
>
> Take a look at the --filemap option to 'hg convert'. It will let you do
> a hg->hg conversion where you can exclude some files.
>
>   
>> 2. Or eventually scratching all revisions before a given one "R", so that it
>> seems that the repository has been created at revision "R".
>>     
>
> Like Igor says, 'hg convert' is your friend here too.
>
>   
Used strategy #1 and worked perfectly. Thanks.

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