mercuria destroys everyone's work

[Reimer Behrends]

FLORENT Philippe wrote:
> After a few months of usage, we thought we tamed the beast
>
> We thought installing our reps on a windows share had solved many issues

What I suspect happened is that you had problems because you were using 
a windows share; as the Wiki notes [1], publishing a repository on a 
networked file system is generally not recommended. This is because 
networked file systems often do not provide the same atomicity 
guarantees as local file systems (also, third-party software such as 
anti-virus scanner may independently do funny stuff, and users may 
accidentally corrupt the repository using other tools). This is not a 
Mercurial-specific issue, either; other version control systems also 
commonly recommend against using such a setup (e.g.: [2]), and for the 
same reasons (unless they were specifically written with that use case 
in mind).

			Reimer Behrends

[1] 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PublishingRepositories#Choosing_a_publishing_method

[2] 
https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-repository.html#tsvn-repository-local-share