Re: exporting the last N days of a repository

From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2008, 01:16 UTC
Message-ID: <93c3eada0811021716y37ba999fkc2085b1060fbea2d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810291610340.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Geoff Russell wrote:
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>> I want to export "the last N days" of a repository to create a copy
>> which has an origin which is the state of the repository N days ago and
>> has all the history between then and now.
>>
>> Can fast-export do this?
>
> Yes.  See the --since=... option.

Sorry, I didn't explain what I want very well. N days ago I had a working directory in a state S with files F1,F2,F3,... I want to dump all the history before then so that this is my new starting point, so I want to keep all changes since then. In general, this is impossible if there are multiple branches which influence what happens between N and now, but in the simple non-branching case it should be possible.

Fast-export with From..To revisions (or with --since=...) just gives changes since the point N days ago.

Basically I'm trying to do an "rcs -o:1.xyz" where xyz is a version and I want to prune before that to shrink a large and unwanted history.

Thanks, Geoff Russell

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> Hth,
> Dscho
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