mercurial "flat checkout / update"

[Greg Ward]

2010/2/15 Hans Meine <meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>:
> If you have the repository on a shared directory (NFS/cifs/...), what about
> the symlink approach (ln -s .hg/store)?  Then you can use "hg update" normally
> AFAIK.

That trick is obsolete.  Since 1.3 we have the 'share' extension:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ShareExtension.  Same idea, but it's
slightly less magical and works on Windows too.

Greg