How Mercurial could be made working with Virus Scanners on Windows

timeless timeless at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 03:31:28 CST 2010


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> So a trick to harden mercurial against AV scanners is to rename files to
> a random name before deleting them, so that the dreaded filename
> blocking (the ghost state) is done on a random name and not on the
> precious original name of the file,

i was more or less going to suggest this at some point, so +1 from me.


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