New User Question: Can the work directory and repository reside in different locations?

[David Knoll]

Hello all,

I'm a new Mercurial user and I have a basic question.  Can a Mercurial repository be located in a different directory/drive than its working directory?  I'd like for my working directory to reside on my local hard drive and the repository to reside on a mapped network drive that is backed up nightly.

Using TortoiseHg I can create repositories anywhere but I find I can only add files to a repository that resides within my working directory.  I don't see anywhere in the documentation any examples that indicate that the repository can reside elsewhere.  Is this possible with Mercurial?  I used to be able to do this with PVCS.

Thanks in advance for any clarifications or suggestions.

David Knoll

P.S. BTW, I'm running on Windows Vista 64-bit.


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