.hgcheck symlinks & dropbox

[Dr. Hegewald]

On 03.01.2013, at 15:18, Simon King <simon at simonking.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
> 

I also found this, but I misinterpreted the very short explanation, because it looks as if the file is created by mercurial, not SourceTree. So .hgcheck seems to be a tmp directory of SourceTree.

Cheers,
-- Jan