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

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Nov 6 11:03:52 CST 2009


On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:02 +0000, Jesse Glick wrote:
> # 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.

Interesting. In general, we don't advertise extensions this way, as
people might get themselves into trouble with them and just generally be
confused by extra complexity. Not sure if we want to start?

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