[Fixed]-How do clone a Mercurial repository into a directory that already exists?

0πŸ‘

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In the main, it looks like you might be trying to use Mercurial as an installation manager which is certainly not its design goal.

If I am reading you correctly, part of your source repository should be something like make deploy which puts the files into their proper places. Put another way, having a repository clone (in .hg) in your deployment directory seems odd and trouble-prone.

πŸ‘€msw

23πŸ‘

Copying just the .hg dir definitely works, but you could also do a hg init and then hg pull http://remote/repo. A repo that has just been initalized has only the 000000000000000 changeset, so you can pull from any repo without getting the β€œunrelated repos” warning. This is essentially the same as hg clone --pull with a manual init.

πŸ‘€Ry4an Brase

11πŸ‘

You can copy just the .hg folder, then revert or update to tip. E.g.:

cp -a src/.hg dest/
cd dest
hg up -C

1πŸ‘

you can either move the folder after the fact, or you can just make a symlink to it. my webfaction directory is actually symlinked, so i know it works fine.

πŸ‘€ben

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