Can one Mercurial repository live inside another Mercurial repository?

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Published on 2010-05-20T13:16:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 13:20 UTC
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Can one hg repo live inside another hg repo on my local file system?

screenshot of one repo inside another

I am pulling down the bitbucket wiki for 'sandbox', and I want to know if this should be placed in repos/sandbox/wiki or repos/sandbox-wiki.

Is the former okay to do?

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