Multiple repositories in one directory (same level) - is it possible?

Question

My original problem is that I have a directory where I write various scripts. Each of them is independent of others, and usually one-file-long. I want to have some versioning ap

Answer 1

You can create multiple hidden repository directories and symlink .hg to whichever one you want to be active. So if you have two repositories, create directories for them:

.hg_production
.hg_staging

Then to activate either of them just do:

ln -sf .hg_production .hg

You could easily create a bash command to do this. So instead you could write something like activate-repo production, which would run ln -sf .hg_production .hg.

Note: Mac doesn't seem to support ln -sf so instead you'll need to do:

rm .hg; ln -s .hg_production .hg