I have a hg repo on my local drive. I am new to hg and want to know if i can move the folder around freely. I am not talking about a folder under version control, i am talking about the folder that contains the repo it self.
I've found a lot of similar questions but most seem to be talking about a folder under version control. another answer is to use hg clone but i want to know if i can just cut and paste the whole repo.
I am using windows xp if that matters.
Yes, you can copy the repository itself by just copying the .hg folder.
Imagine the following folder structure:
MyRepo
MyRepo\.hg
MyRepo\file_under_version_control.txt
MyRepo is the whole repository (or as you called it, "folder under version control").
When you remove the .hg folder from it, MyRepo is just a normal folder without version control.
When you move the .hg folder somewhere else, you can create a new working directory by running hg update, so the new folder where .hg resides will be a complete repository again.
.hg directory.
.hg directory seem version-specific. You can't safely transfer a repo from Mercural version X and have it recognized by version Y on another system. For some years, that was working for me, but it seems like not these days (or I was getting lucky). Instead, use hg bundle to transfer repos like that.
Technically you can, but you have two possibly unwanted outcomes if you do move your .hg folder:
While the first outcome is no problem, the second likely is - unless the destination folder is just different working copy checked out from the same revision of your hg repository.
Yes, that is the whole idea behind DVSC (distributed version control systems), git also works in that way.
