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Re: Publishing part of a repository

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-07-03 14:01:29 CEST

Robin Becker wrote:

> Is this sort of thing feasible? I was planning to do this with a
> python script & regexes, but see that there is a python binding to the
> libs. Unfortunately I don't seem to find a good description of the
> library api. (I'm probably looking in the wrong place).

For this kind of change, you'd do better to write a python script that
work directly on dumpfiles. The dump format is very easy to parse. I'd
suggest dumping both repositories, then reading both at the same time
and generating a merged dumpfile with the paths renamed. The renaming
should be easy (basically string.replace, you don't even need regexes),
and the sorting is a simple merge of the files, since the revisions in
each one are already sorted by date.

What you _do_ have to be careful about is how you map revision numbers
-- each of the old repos will have a different mapping. When you load
the resulting dumpfile, I suggest you do so with the --ignore-uuid
option, because you don't want people to accidentally try to update
their old working copies from the new repos -- that won't work.

-- Brane

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