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 +====== Mercurial (hg) ======
 +
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 +=== Extract parts of a repository into another repository ===
 +.. and also keep the history!
 +
 +
 +Step 1: use the [[http://​mercurial.selenic.com/​wiki/​ConvertExtension|convert extension]] for extraction
 +
 +Step 1a: [[http://​mercurial.selenic.com/​wiki/​UsingExtensions|Enable Extension]]
 +
 +Step 1b: Create a filemap
 +
 +<​code>​
 +include repo_subdir
 +exclude repo_subdir/​bigfile.csv
 +rename repo_subdir .
 +</​code>​
 +
 +Step 1c:
 +<code bash>
 +hg convert --filemap /​path/​to/​filemap /​path/​to/​old/​repo /​path/​to/​extracted/​repo
 +</​code>​
 +
 +Step 2: Pull the created repo into your current repo
 +<code bash>
 +cd /​path/​to/​repo
 +hg pull /​path/​to/​extracted/​repo
 +</​code>​
  
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