Sanitizing a branch

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I have a problem that is related to this one:

   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q1/054149.html

I have a project that was imported into Bzr from GNU Arch many years
ago and has history dating back to early 2004. During the time I've
hacked on this I have added all sorts of cruft including tests files
scraps of documentation etc.

I'd now like to make a public branch of this repo with the public
branch having none of the cruft but keeping the cruft in my 
private branch and still have the ability to merge between the
two relatively painlessly.

Is this possible? Any clues on how to do it?

Cheers,
Erik
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