Questions about contributing

[Masklinn]

On 2011-09-08, at 10:59 , Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> As you describe it it would be an unnecessary abstraction and extra complexity and more verbose code without any benefit. I doubt a patch for that would be accepted. A repo made by a Mercurial hacked as you describe it would no longer be a Mercurial repository. One of Mercurials core values is that the repository format only change in backward compatible ways.
I might be mistaken, but he seems not to talk about changing the repository format, just the repository location (well in this precise case the name of the repo's folder within a working copy, but I could see that being useful to store repositories in one place and working copies in an other place, for instance storing repositories on a smaller backuped partition and working copies on a bigger non-backuped "scratch" disk)