100s of thousands of hgtstatus files

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 01:18 -0700, Dylan Cuthbert wrote:
> We've been using tortoiseHg for a while on a large repo and happened to look
> in the .hg directory to find 100s of thousands of hgtstatus files from the
> icon overlay system.  In Win7 the directory was barely openable.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this behaviour and is the only way to get rid of it to
> turn off the icon overlay - we calculated that it must have been writing out
> a new file four times a minute for 3 months to get that many.

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