Nested Trees and History after Splitting

[Ian Clatworthy]

A. S. Budden wrote:

> Is there any way to delete all history that doesn't relate to the
> files that are present in the working directory at the moment?

Hi Al,

As Alexander mentioned, you probably wanty fast-import-filter instead of
split. See
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/migration/en/data-migration/fast-import-filter.html.

> On a separate note, I've been reading
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/NestedTreesDesign and we are quite keen to use
> this.

This feature is still under development. Aaron made a lot of progress
recently but things were put on hold as we focussed on getting 2.0
stable. Right now, the best option is probably the scmproj project.

> Also, are the split and join options likely to go into TortoiseBzr?

How often do you expect to use them? I can't speak for TortoiseBzr but I
can say that Explorer is looking to include most core commands over time.

> Most of my coworkers prefer GUIs and if we are going to switch from
> the hideous PVCS to the wonderful Bazaar, they'll probably need to do
> everything in GUI land!

Hopefully our GUIs now cover 95% of what they'll need. The only commonly
used features missing to my knowledge are shelve/unshelve and rename.

Ian C.