treemanifest: set requires at repo creation time, ignore config after The very next changeset will start writing one revlog per directory when tree manifests are enabled. That is backwards incompatible, so it requires .hg/requires to be updated. Just like with generaldelta, we want to update .hg/requires only when the repo is created. Updating ..hg/requires is bad for repos on shared disk. Instead, those who do want to upgrade a repo to using treemanifest (or manifestv2, etc) can run hg clone --config experimental.treemanifest repo clone which will create a new repo with the requirement set. Unlike the case of e.g. generaldelta, it will not rewrite the changesets, since tree manifests hash differently.