D863: commands: remove suggestion to clone via `cp -al`
indygreg (Gregory Szorc)
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REVISION SUMMARY
This was added in https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/rHG2df98f6166458ed16534d993a75a738f440da8b9 in 2006. This may be possible but it
seems like a bad idea to even suggest it.
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rHG Mercurial
REVISION DETAIL
https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D863
AFFECTED FILES
mercurial/commands.py
CHANGE DETAILS
diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -1339,18 +1339,6 @@
incorrectly, but do not report errors. In these cases, use the
--pull option to avoid hardlinking.
- In some cases, you can clone repositories and the working
- directory using full hardlinks with ::
-
- $ cp -al REPO REPOCLONE
-
- This is the fastest way to clone, but it is not always safe. The
- operation is not atomic (making sure REPO is not modified during
- the operation is up to you) and you have to make sure your
- editor breaks hardlinks (Emacs and most Linux Kernel tools do
- so). Also, this is not compatible with certain extensions that
- place their metadata under the .hg directory, such as mq.
-
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