Shared repo strange behaviour

Scott Palmer swpalmer at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 18:50:43 UTC 2010


Gavin Erry <gavinerry <at> erry.co.uk> writes:

> 
> Well there are no hardlinks in the repo itself (just text files).  I didn't
> realise that the clone command uses hardlinks for the repo metadata.  I'll
> try cloning with the --pull option tomorrow and see if that fixes it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gavin
> 

Mercurial is supposed to use hardlinks internally to implement clone efficiently 
(even on windows!)

Instead of cloning via the file share, try running "hg serve" and cloning via 
http.

Scott




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