cleaning out a Mercurial Repository

Question

There are a bunch of file in the history of my hg repo that have been removed. They are causing the repo to get pretty big (several of them are images, and sql dumps from ea

Answer 1

See:

$ hg convert --help

...

$ hg convert --filemap fmap old new

where file fmap contains something like:

exclude path/to/file/to/purge

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