How do you divide a repository?

[Joris Putcuyps]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 
>>Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>>
>>>John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>>
>>>>>There have been a lot of discussions about how to handle this more
>>>>>cleanly. And there is a pretty clear proposal
>>>>>http://bazaar-vcs.org/NestedTreeSupport
>>>>>
>>>>>But that hasn't been implemented. It involves 2 things, first we
>>>>>probably want to split the inventory into per-directory, to make it
>>>>>easier to retain a smaller set of history. And second, we want the
>>>>>ability to reference other branches by their revision id/url (sort of
>>>>>like svn:externals).
>>>
>>>I'm glad this discussion has come up because the feature is something I
>>>would very much like to see implemented fully.  I think I asked briefly
>>>about it some weeks back but didn't pursue the issue.  Are there any
>>>estimates for when it might be implemented?
>>>
>>>I wish I could contribute but I'm not a very good programmer (and don't
>>>know Python) so my practical help can't be much.  Are there any other
>>>suitable contributions that can be made (e.g. putting money towards a
>>>bounty for this feature, or just ideas for how this feature should be
>>>implemented from a user's perspective)?
> 
> 
> One useful thing would be to further develop the specification - even if
> you don't have a solution or design in mind describing particular use
> cases, etc.
> 
> 
>>I'm probably guessing that it is pretty high on the priority list, and
>>will show up after 0.8 is released.
> 
> 
> For me it is fairly high on the list, but lower than improving network
> and storage performance.  I'd like to do something towards it in May or
> June.
> 

One way to implement this is using the technique of subversion. They 
filter out the revisions by using a filter (svndumpfilter) on their dump 
   file (svnadmin dump).

Joris