problem on OSX with repository in network shared partition

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Nov 29 11:15:13 CST 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 16:56 +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 04:10 PM, sbarex sbarex wrote:
> > Hi, I'm starting to experience a few days mercurial but I have a big
> > problem:
> > I'm on a mac with OSX 10.6 with a remote disk mounted from a XServe (OSX
> > 10.4) with afs protocol.
> 
> Apparently not directly relevant, but note the warning on the hg man 
> page and in "hg help clone":
> 
> For efficiency, hardlinks are used for cloning whenever the source and 
> destination are on the same filesystem (note this applies only to the 
> repository data, not to the working directory). Some filesystems, such 
> as AFS, implement hardlinking incorrectly, but do not report errors. In 
> these cases, use the --pull option to avoid hardlinking.

Looks like the help is wrong. The AFS problem has always been with
symlinks, not hardlinks.

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