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Creating a new repo from old one

Asked by avi on 2013-07-15

Hi all. I am very new to bazaar & I am really enjoy using it. The versioning thing is so powerful & makes stuff easy :D

I have a bazaar repo, lets call it 'foo'. Under foo repo I have a directory, lets call it projects.

so, I want to create a separate bazaar repo with only porjects directory & I want to retain the log too. I mean to say, everything that is related to project folder present in log file, should be available with this new repo.

Hope I am clear. Thank you in advance :)

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John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#1

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On 2013-07-15 17:11, avi wrote:
> New question #232474 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/232474
>
> Hi all. I am very new to bazaar & I am really enjoy using it. The
> versioning thing is so powerful & makes stuff easy :D
>
> I have a bazaar repo, lets call it 'foo'. Under foo repo I have a
> directory, lets call it projects.
>
> so, I want to create a separate bazaar repo with only porjects
> directory & I want to retain the log too. I mean to say, everything
> that is related to project folder present in log file, should be
> available with this new repo.
>
> Hope I am clear. Thank you in advance :)
>

You can look at "bzr split" to see if that fits what you want. Or just do:

bzr branch repo new-repo
cd new-repo
rm *
bzr revert projects
bzr mv projects/* .
bzr rm projects
bzr commit -m "Just projects"

Which is roughly equivalent of what 'bzr split' does.

It isn't possible to have the "same" commits without the rest of the
history because the history records the shape of the whole tree, not
just a subdirectory.

It would be theoretically possible to create a new history that has
all the changes that only affected the subdirectory be replayed in it,
but we do not have an automated way of creating this.

John
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