Can I clone part of a Mercurial repository?

Question

Is it possible to clone part of a Mercurial repository? Let\'s say the repository is quite large, or contains multiple projects, or multiple branches. Can I clone only part

Answer 1

Yes you can. I'm sure you've moved on, but for the sake of those who will wander here later, I followed the docs at ConvertExtension, and wrote a simple batch script:

@echo off
echo Converting %1
REM Create the file map
echo include %1 > ~myfilemap               
echo rename %1 . >> ~myfilemap 
REM Run the convert process
hg convert --filemap ~myfilemap .\ ..\%1   
REM Delete the file map
del ~myfilemap                             
cd ..\%1
REM update the new repo--to create the files
hg update                                  

Name it something like split.cmd, and put it in the directory for the repo you want to split. Say for example you have C:\repos\ReallyBigProject, and a subfolder is C:\repos\ReallyBigProject\small-project. At the command prompt, run:

cd\repos\ReallyBigProject
split.cmd small-project

This will create C:\repos\small-project with a slice of the relevant history of revisions from the larger project.

The convert is not enabled by default. You'll need to make sure the following lines exist in your .hg\hgrc file (c:\repos\ReallyBigProject\.hg\hgrc in my example):

[extensions]
hgext.convert=