Secret phase prevents fast local cloning

[Kim Randell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mackall [mailto:mpm at selenic.com]
> Sent: 03 December 2014 21:13
> To: Kim Randell
> Cc: mercurial at selenic.com
> Subject: Re: Secret phase prevents fast local cloning
> 
> On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 14:29 +0000, Kim Randell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been attempting to create hardlinked clones of my local repository,
> and after some experimentation determined that changesets with secret
> phase prevent hardlinks or file copies, falling back on the slow pull clone.
> Eventually I found this in the source:
> >
> >         if (srcrepo and srcrepo.cancopy() and islocal(dest)
> >             and not phases.hassecret(srcrepo)):
> >             copy = not pull and not rev
> >
> > Which ultimately originated with this change:
> >
> http://selenic.com/repo/hg/annotate/2072e4031994/mercurial/localrepo.py
> #l631
> >
> > This doesn't appear to be documented anywhere - perhaps it should be
> added to http://selenic.com/hg/help/clone,
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HardlinkedClones, or
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Phases ?
> 
> You are correct. It's a wiki: login and edit away.

Done:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Phases#Impact_on_cloning
Hope that's okay.

--
Kim



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