Extracting a subdirectory of repository A to a different repository B using mercurial

Question

I want to move a part, i.e. one subdirectory of an existing, private mercurial repository to a new, public repository on bitbucket. Is it possible to do this including the changesets or do I have to manually copy the directory to the new repository and commit it there (and lose the version history on the way)?

Answer 1

you want to use the convert extension to do this. it may be worth while reorganising your main repo to make this a subrepo while you are at it.