Separating the repository and the tree

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 20:04 +0700, andreas wrote:
> Hello.
> Is it possible for Mercurial to have the repo outside the source tree?
> 
> Example with Git;
> 
>   $ git --git-dir=~/src/myproject-git --work-tree=~/src/myproject init
> 
> Using the above, the source tree "~/src/myproject" remains untouched and
> all git related files are in the other location specified by "git-dir"
> parameter.

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ShareExtension

Or you can just use a symlink.

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