Mercurial - convert normal repo to bare repo

Question

i´ve installed TortoiseHg with Mercurial. Another programmer of our department created a "normal" hg repo a few months ago. Now I have to change this repo into a "bare" one. Is this even possible?

Answer 1

To create a bare repo when cloning use the no update flag when cloning i.e. hg clone --noupdate ...

To convert to a bare repo update to the "null" branch use hg update null