Bundle

The best way to create a compressed version of a repository is with a bundle. It will be significantly smaller than a tarball or a zip file.

To include all revisions, simply specify the null base. After release 0.9.5 the switch --all was added as an alias to --base null, so you can use hg bundle --all project.hg instead.

Links

• http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle

• http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CreateBundleOfAllChanges

• http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BackUp

Sample

See ~/bin/backup-mercurial.sh

Usage

To create a bundle containing every change-set in the repository:

hg bundle --all ~/repo-name.hg

To create a new repository containing the contents of the bundle:

cd ~/empty-folder/
hg init
hg unbundle ~/repo-name.hg