title: How to best configure a central repository/multiple central repositories for Mercurial?
body: <p>I am new to Mercurial and trying to figure out if it could replace SVN.  Everyone I work with has used SVN, CVS and VSS (shiver), so this could be quite a large change.  I have been very interested after reading about its merge and branch capability, but have a few reservations.</p>
  
  <p>We are currently on SVN, and have one central repository.  From my reading, it seems as though there is no ONE central repository for all projects when using Mercurial.  NOTE: We consider each project a separate logical set of code, or a Visual Studio Solution.  It runs on its own.</p>
  
  <p>We have around 60 separate projects in our one central SVN repository.  After reading about Mercurial it seems to me that I have to create 60 separate central repositories for each one of these projects on the server.  QUESTION #1: Should I create a single repository for each project?</p>
  
  <p>If yes, then I am worried about configuring and hosting 60 separate central Mercurial servers.  I started thinking I could configure one file, but it seems as if each repository must be individually configured using the “C:...\MyRepository.hg\hgrc” file (Windows install).  It also seems as I have to run 60 servers (>hg serve), I would assume on different ports.  QUESTION #2: If the answer to question 1 is yes, there should be a single central repository for each project, then how have people managed many multiple repositories?</p>
  
  <p>Finally, I haven’t looked into moving all history and changes from one SVN repository to a bunch of separate Mercurial repositories, but would appreciate any comments from someone who has done this (or if it is even possible). </p>