cloning by hardlink

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:37:15PM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> 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'.

Freat spotting!! Finally it makes sense.