Windows long path experimenting report

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 23:45 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
> 2008/6/20 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:
> > In practice, we should aim to have a single layout that can be
> > shared by all platforms. Because people do in fact regularly share repos
> > across platforms.
> 
> Do people actually *share* (as opposed to cloning) repos across
> platforms? Ie, using localrepo rather than http/ssh/whatever? That
> presumably involves NFS mounting the repo, or SMB or some such.

Yep. Especially people intent on using hg as a CVS-like system.

> Or mounting the filesystem on different systems (e.g. a USB key).

That happens a lot too.

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