.hgcheck symlinks & dropbox

[Simon King]

On 3 Jan 2013, at 10:48, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:

On 01/03/2013 09:48 AM, Dr. Hegewald wrote:

Mercurial will try to create a 'hg-checklink-??????' symlink in the working
directory to find out whether the filesystem support symlinks or not.

OK, so the file *is* created by mercurial`.


No. Mercurial will create the check file in the root of the working
directory, not in .hgcheck. And Mercurial will use a random non-existing
filename when it is checking for symlink capabilities.


It looks like the .hgcheck directory is created by SourceTree:

https://mobile.twitter.com/stevestreeting/statuses/162578525201768449

Simon
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