cloning by hardlink

[Nathan Lynch]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:38:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:58:02AM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > So I'd rather have people who know what they're doing use cp -al.
> > 
> > There's a bug somewhere that causes the .hg/data/.hgtags.d file to get
> > lost, see my old emails about that.
> 
> I'm sorry, I completely missed that report. Do you know how to
> reproduce it?

I've noticed this happens whenever I do a "make clean" in a Linux
kernel repo.  The "clean" target removes any file whose name matches
'.*.d'.