Changing a directory structure in Mercurial

Question

I have a single-person single-folder mercurial repository. The directory structure is simple:

P104
  lecture_notes
    files under version control live here         


        

Answer 1

If the root directory of your Mercurial repo is under ~/P104/lecture_notes, I would rather:

1. rename lecture_notes into P104
2. make a subdirectory lecture_notes
3. move all the existing files in that new sub-directory
4. add homework and its files in the renamed P104 directory
5. hg add everything

The idea is to keep the .hg repo where it is (~/P104/lecture_notes renamed into ~/P104/P104) and reorganize the files within that renamed directory.
No need to clone.