"hg import" can't handle multiple changesets per file

[TK Soh]

--- Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:09:21PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > [Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed to the list.]
> > 
> > If you do "hg export 1 2 3 > file.patch", file.patch will contain a set
> > of hg changesets in exported form, including the hg header comment
> > before each.  However, "hg import file.patch" will ignore all but the
> > first header, and treat the entire file as a representation of that one
> > changeset.  In my case, this caused three large changesets to be
> > committed as one changeset, amusingly titled "formatting fixes". :)
> 
> There isn't really a clean way to fix this. But you probably wanted:
> 
> hg export -o "file-%n.patch" 1 2 3
> hg import file-*.patch

Or in case the changesets have been exported all to one file. You can use the
csplit utility to split the changesets into files (xx*), then pass the files to
import.

   $ csplit patches '/^# HG changeset patch/' "{*}"
   $ cd repo
   $ hg import ../xx*



		
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