100s of thousands of hgtstatus files

[Becker, Mischa J]

> From: Dylan Cuthbert
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:24 AM
> Subject: RE: 100s of thousands of hgtstatus files
>
>> I can only speak of THG 2.9.1, and only about a repo of ca. 700MB
>> store size. With this I've never seen the effect you described.
>> Overlays are on and working in the range of expectation (Windows
>> Explorer overlays never worked 100% right for me, no matter what tool it was) and no "hgtstatus" file is observed.
>> There is a "thgstatus" file (which I guess you meant), but I've always seen only one and not many of them, let alone
>> hundreds of thousands.
>
> Sorry yes, thgstatus is what I meant, sorry about that.  (I had deleted the files so had to guess from memory) We are
> using v2.9.1 of tortoisehg.
>
> On several people's machines here we found 100k+ of these files.  The repo is very large (60+ gigabytes) with 10s of
> thousands of files.

That seems very strange. I didn't think it was physically possible to have multiple files with the exact same filename in the same folder on Windows 7.  Is anybody looking at the projects thru a Library? Maybe that is somehow messing things up?

You said you deleted the extra thgstatus files. Are they coming back in the repos they were deleted from?

I'm still on THG v2.9 but I've never seen more than one copy of thgstatus in each .hg folder on Win XP or Win 7. On the other hand, I've never had a repo that large either.

Mischa

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