Hardlinks cause problems

[Peter Suter]

On 28.02.2020 09:32, Peter Suter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Many years ago in https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1922 
> people recommended using "clone --pull" to avoid hardlinks.
> This is also still recommended on 
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HardlinkedClones and in top search 
> results  like 
> https://serverfault.com/questions/127440/how-to-tell-mercurial-to-never-create-hard-links 
>
>
> This has worked well for us so far, but recently we upgraded our 
> Mercurial server, and now the "Azure Backup" fails. Apparently it does 
> not support hardlinks: 
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-support-matrix-mars-agent#supported-file-types-for-backup 
>
> > Hard links Not supported.
>
> But we do use "clone --pull", so we thought there were no hardlinks. 
> Apparently Mercurial nowadays still uses hardlinks? The files that 
> fails are mainly `.hg/undo.bookmarks` and similar files.
>
> Is there a way to "fully" disable the use of hardlinks in Mercurial?
> Alternatively: Is it save to just delete the `.hg/undo.*` files before 
> we run the Azure Backup?

And also `.hg/store/undo.*`?


>
> Thanks,
> Peter