How to combine a number of small repositories into one?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:21:48AM -0700, Tom Hindle wrote:
> >    On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:17 AM Chris Green <[2]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > 
> >      I have a number of very small mercurial repositories living in
> >      various
> >      subdirectories of a single parent directory (most are two levels
> >      down).
> >      How can I merge all of them into a single mercurial repository while
> >      keeping all the history etc.?
> >      The repositories to be merged are:-
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/textalign/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/xv/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/blog/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/dbrd/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/rst/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/showmail/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/db2.wkg/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/servlog/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/tagentry/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/indexmenu/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/trip/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/include/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/database2/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/plugins/rsthdr/.hg
> >          /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/tpl/roundbox/.hg
> >      I want them to be combined in one repository at
> >      /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki.
> >      These are all local files, nothing remote, I'm running mercurial
> >      version 5.3.1 on xubuntu.
>
>    [1]https://stackoverflow.com/a/10450591/361714
> 
Ah, maybe I wasn't quite clear, I want to retain the directory
hierarchy but have only one repository.  I.e. all the files stay in
exactly the same place but instead of all those separate .hg
directories there will be a single one:-

    /home/chris/dev/dokuwiki/.hg

-- 
Chris Green