Using mercurial for configuration files version control

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On Nov 25, 7:02 am, Jouni Airaksinen <Jouni.Airaksi... at descom.fi>
wrote:

> Technically you can move repository into existing directly if you just
> clone it first into new directory and then move/copy the content into new
> directory (might be possible just to move .hg directory and do update in
> the new directory). I probably would prefer having separate directory and
> then just symlink wanted files. Of course this cannot track new files and
> you'd have to setup the symlinks manually, but atleast you won't "kill"
> your servers that easily.

Could the symlink step be automated with a simple makefile or script?
Then the makefile/script also is tracked in the DVCS?

/dps