I have a web app thats been in active development for about 8 months now and its

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I have a web app thats been in active development for about 8 months now and its becoming apparent that the project has a need to maintain a separation between app specific code and our OO Javascript API.

What I would like to do is have another repository with the following general structure of the js API code.

repo_name
   |
   +---build
   |
   +---build_tools
   |
   +---doc
   |
   +---src
        |
        +---js
Of course this structure is different from the original web app directory structure. If I make changes to this new repository how could I pull in those changes to the web app repository without unintentionally removing files or modifying the directory structure of the web app repository?

Explanation / Answer

It sounds to me like you're in need of a sub-repository. This will allow you to have a main repo but extract out a selection of your main project into it's own repository (which you can work on independently of the main project, or as a nested repo).

Subrepositories let you treat a collection of repositories as a group. For example, when you clone a repo, Mercurial will recursively clone all of its subrepositories as well, so the developer (or build server) doesn

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