Re: exporting the last N days of a repository

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
>> 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



>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>
>



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