Change location of .hg: mercurial equivalent of --separate-git-dir

[Nathan Goldbaum]

I *think* you're looking for the share extension?

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ShareExtension

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:52 AM Michael Forbes <michael.forbes+hg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 3:02 AM, Marcin Kasperski <
> Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> wrote:
> >
> >> My use case is allowing others to edit a working copy through Dropbox,
> >> Google Drive, etc. and then periodically being able to compare the
> >> state of that copy with my repository, optionally adding or committing
> >> their changes.
> >>
> >> I don't want to store the .hg folder in the shared repo for risk of
> >> data corruption (if people simultaneously commit in several places and
> >> the drive share auto-manages conflicts IN the .hg repo).
> >
> > I'd consider solving it the other way:
> >
> >   dropbox exclude add path/to/.hg
> >
> > (and .hg is not synced anymore, but the files are, you are free to
> > commit as you like).
> >
> > I suppose gdrive has sth similar.
>
> In principle, these options would work, but in practise they are very
> poorly implemented.  For example, simply excluding the .hg from dropbox
> will delete it, and it cannot be excluded if it does not exist, so one
> needs to go through a convoluted procedure of adding a fake .hg directory,
> syncing that, excluding it, then moving the correct .hg file in place.
>
> Also, the method differs for each type of remote share, and is extremely
> difficult to automate.  I am looking for a universal solution which using
> an alternative location for the .hg directory would provide.
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