Creating branch from a subdirectory of another branch?

[Panagiotis Papadakos]

Hi!
Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately this does not seem to help me.
I get no revisions in the dump for the directory I am searching for
(don't know why). Also it seems that hg is capable of creating a branch
from any directory of a subversion repository. I just hope that I could
do something like this with bzr.


 	Panagiotis Papadakos

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:

> Panagiotis Papadakos <papadako <at> csd.uoc.gr> writes:
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>> I am trying to move a project in my university from SVN to bzr. So I used
>> the bzr-svn plugin, which worked like a charm. But now I am facing another
>> problem. I would like to create a branch holding only a subdirectory of my
>> initial branch, created from the SVN, without of course loosing history. I
>> could probably use bzr rm and mv, removing uneeded directories, but this
>> does not seem like a clean way. Is that possible?
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> The way that I accomplished this was to dump my SVN repository and then filter
> it using a script such as
> http://www.tartarus.org/~simon-anonsvn/viewcvs.cgi/svn-tools/svndumpfilter2,
> http://furius.ca/pubcode/pub/conf/common/bin/svndumpfilter3.html,
> or my changed version: http://www.undersea.com/~nburrell/svndumpfilter4.
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> Then, I imported thefiltered SVN repository using the bzr-svn plugin.  Note that
> this will sever the historical link to the original versions of files that we
> copied into the subdirectory from outside.  I know of no other solution besides
> using bzr rm and mv on the full branch to prune the HEAD down to the
> subdirectory you want (which will of course keep the history for all other paths
> in the bzr repository).  Peace,
>
> -Neil
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