Yes, that would be the idea, giving the possibility to define an
initial date, a branch selection, etc.
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2013/7/24 Isaac Jurado <dipto...@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steve Landers
> <st...@digitalsmarties.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/07/2013, at 7:28 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIK git offers a mechanism for changing history, but Fossil doesn't like 
>>> for history to change.
>>
>> It isn't changing history, it is setting a subproject free to live
>> it's own life. That's not an unusual situation, given that projects
>> often grow and then divide.
>>
>> So I detach a local repository, rename it, and continue with a new
>> repository for the subproject. But it contains all of the history for
>> the parent project, as does the parent project repository.  I can push
>> that to a branch and close it in the detached repo, no big deal.  But
>> it isn't ideal, especially if the original repo is large.
>>
>> Being able to detach based on a specific commit or branch would be
>> nice (not essential, but nice).
>
> That looks like a Fossil to Fossil export/import feature, without having
> to go through Git fast-export format, right?
>
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