Mercurial - convert normal repo to bare repo

Question

I installed TortoiseHg with Mercurial. Another programmer in our department created a “normal” hg repo a few months ago. Now I have to change this repo to naked. Is it possible?

Answer 1

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

To convert to a bare repo update before using the null branch hg update null