Forests again: Moving files between repositories in a forest

Jesse Glick jesse.glick at sun.com
Thu Feb 14 19:10:45 CST 2008


Brian Wallis wrote:
> I will probably need to be able to move things between repositories
> if I have multiple repos. [...] When I move something from repoA to 
> repoB I would expect the history to reflect that in some way.

It is possible, though it looks scary (an extension to do this would be 
really appreciated). You still have the history in the origin repo; it 
gets duplicated in the target repo (with different changeset IDs of 
course). Your mileage may vary but:

http://wiki.netbeans.org/HgHowTos#section-HgHowTos-TransferAModuleSHistoryToAnotherRepository



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