Repository outside the working directory?

[Martin Geisler]

v <voldermort at hotmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm on Windows - that's why I'm using
> hg instead of git :-)
>
> I had another look at the documentation for share, and (if I
> understood it correctly) it says that patch queues are kept with the
> working directory. If I do all my work in versioned patch queues,
> presumably these will take up more space than the actual repository,

That would be unusual. Patch queues are normally quite small: they hold
data for 10-20 changesets while the repository holds data for thousands
of changesets. Also, the patch queue is just a set of patch files, so it
only stores the diffs between each changeset.

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Martin Geisler

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