[Python-Dev] PEP 385 progress report (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sat Feb 13 19:43:28 CET 2010

2010/2/13 Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl>:

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 17:14, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Does hg support an equivalent of 'bzr split'?

% bzr split --help Purpose: Split a subdirectory of a tree into a separate tree. Usage:   bzr split TREE Options:  --usage        Show usage message and options.  -v, --verbose  Display more information.  -q, --quiet    Only display errors and warnings.  -h, --help     Show help message. Description:  This command will produce a target tree in a format that supports  rich roots, like 'rich-root' or 'rich-root-pack'.  These formats cannot be  converted into earlier formats like 'dirstate-tags'.  The TREE argument should be a subdirectory of a working tree.  That  subdirectory will be converted into an independent tree, with its own  branch.  Commits in the top-level tree will not apply to the new subtree. Is that like a clone/branch of a subdir of the original repository? We don't have what we usually call "narrow clones" yet (nor "shallow clones", the other potentially useful form of partial clones). We do have the convert extension, which allows you to create a new repository from a subtree of an old repository, but it changes all the hashes (and I don't know if we have a way to splice them back together).

It is not a partial clone, but rather similar to what you are referring to with the convert extension.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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