p4 and hg (was: diff disagrees with status)

[j w]

On Jan 24, 2008 6:18 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>
> There is, therefore, more than one reason *not* to share the same set of
> files (workspace) between Perforce and Hg.  There is only *one* reason
> for the opposite (to save a bit of disk space).

One other reason - I'm not sure our tools will handle working out of
different directories nicely (though I admit I haven't tried yet)

>
> You don't have to create a new Perforce branch.  You can treat the same
> physical directory as the `Perforce incoming and outgoing area'.  Then
> you can create an Hg workspace with that area as its `parent' workspace,
> and you can keep any number of clones of the Hg branch.
>

This 'parent' workspace concept is new to me. Do you mean you can have
the working dir of a hg repo in some unrelated directory?

-John