How just to intercept merging "conflicts", nothing else

[Marcin Kasperski]

>> PS "In-memory" merge can be more-or-less achieved by:
>>
>> hg clone . /some/temp/dir/on/tmpfs
>> cd /some/temp/dir/on/tmpfs/
>> hg merge
>
> if your repo is very large,
> or you need to work on a NFS file system where I/O is very slow,
> or you need to do very many of those "dry merges" to check for conflicts,
> it's painfully slow and unpractical.

If case of NFS file system with slow I/O - and complicated merge - it
may happen that clone to (very fast) filesystem may in fact make things
faster. Of course all depends on the history size, compressability of
files etc.