Mercurial - convert normal repo to bare repo

Question

i´ve installed TortoiseHg with Mercurial. Another programmer of our department created a "normal" hg repo a few months ago. Now I have to change this repo into a "bare" one. Is this even possible?

Antung

duplicate of #4159226 – Brownley

Answer 1

To create a bare repo when cloning use the no update flag when cloning i.e. hg clone --noupdate ...

To convert to a bare repo update to the "null" branch use hg update null

Dignadignified

that works fine for me, thank you. "hg update null" on central repo deletes all files, excepting the ".hg" directory. – Antung

Good answer! Small detail: null is not a branch, is the changeset before the first changeset you make (the ancestor of the first revision). – Verdict