(Ab)using hg for data logging

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:19 +0200, Marko Käning wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am perhaps abusing hg here, but I am generating tons of log files which 
> I want to keep in line with other files of my project.
> 
> Every time I commit the code also those concurrently generated data files 
> get stored.
> 
> The question:
> 	Does hg take a snapshot of all files at the moment before the 
> commit and does it work with that snapshot instead of the files how they 
> look like a second after issueing "hg commit" command, or not???

There's no way to get an instantaneous snapshot of a directory tree on
the average filesystem. Thus, if you are writing to tracked files
between the time a commit command started and ends, what precisely is
recorded is undefined.

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