[PATCH 1 of 1] Issue919 addendum: advertise in clone help text

Jesse Glick typrase at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 08:02:05 CST 2009


# HG changeset patch
# User Jesse Glick <jesse.glick at sun.com>
# Date 1257516045 18000
# Node ID b8d96b2e4ae1354ca91fc705431ec71ad21d9fa7
# Parent  00ab4eee3e2712e09c1f38e4eff61bbd3e4a1365
Issue919 addendum: advertise in clone help text.

diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -625,7 +625,8 @@
     to the repository data, not to the checked out files). Some
     filesystems, such as AFS, implement hardlinking incorrectly, but
     do not report errors. In these cases, use the --pull option to
-    avoid hardlinking.
+    avoid hardlinking. Conversely, if you used --rev but wanted hardlinks,
+    you can use the relink extension after cloning.
 
     In some cases, you can clone repositories and checked out files
     using full hardlinks with ::


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