mq: alter location of "status" file

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Thu Jan 7 05:42:04 CST 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:32, Hermann Lauer
<Hermann.Lauer at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> is it possible to put the status file in another location
> as ".hg/patches/status" (for eg. ".hg/mqstatus") ?
>
> Reson is that that file is the only file which contains per
> repo information and so prevents shring of the .hg/patches
> directory.
>
> Or can this be configured already somewhere ?

If you use qinit -c and qcommit to initialize the patch queue as a
repository of it's own, it will know not to add status, so you can
easily share patch queues that way (and many people do so).

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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