update into a different folder?

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 08/01/2011 03:47 PM, Jack Beauregard wrote:
> What I wanna do... I want to bring two repositories together. They
> have a different folder layout. The 1st step is clone an existing
> repository(a) and give them the shape of the other on(b).
> b has the correct layout /LVL1/<sources>.

Do b really have the correct layout? Or are you describing how it should 
look like? From the rest of what you are writing I assume the latter.

> a has no subdir: / After
> cloning and hg update I get /.hg and /<sources>. Now I want to
> have /.hg and /LVL1/<sources>.

I would first 'hg convert' the LVL1 repo with a 'rename . /LVL1' 
filemap, then pull the new repo into the first (with pull -f), and 
finally merge the heads of the two trees.

> hg mv is really a hint but if I do that
> I get abort: destination is not a directory, but of course it is one.

Please paste a command line session that demonstrates this.

/Mads