Gigantic repositories

[Patrick Mézard]

Tom Plunket a écrit :
>> Tom Plunket a écrit :
>>
>>> I saw the docs on using links if the underlying FS supports them.
>>> I know that NTFS does support them but I've never heard of anyone
>>> actually using them; does Mercurial actually use them?
>> Yes.
> 
> Question numero deux, donc,
> 
> Is there any good way, short of finding database inconsistencies, of
> knowing when/if my editor works with said files properly?  I suspect
> I need to verify that my editor creates and writes a new file with
> every save, then unlinks the old one, rather than just writing to
> the existing file/inode/whatever-it-is-on-NTFS?

Hardlinks are used only on the storage part, never in the working directory, so you don't need to handle them.