broke my .hgsubstate file

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 20:27 +0100, Julius Ziegler wrote:
> What do you mean by a proper shared server? hg serve? We are
> pushing/pulling via a ssh:// url. We do need an ssh'ish authentication
> stage and encryption, an without looking into it to much, this seemed to
> be the easiest way.
> 
> > > 1.6.3 (copy 1)
> > > 1.7.5 (copy 2)
> > > 2.0.1 (file server)

I think Mads was responding to "file server". A real file server (ie
NFS, CIFS) is indeed a less robust mode of operation.

I put some info about doing 'manual checkouts' on the wiki just now that
might be useful to you:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ManualCheckout

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