I agree with Adrian's response, but will add that writing an extension that
disables local hard-link clones should be quite simple. The mercurial
project might even accept a patch for making the feature optional.
see http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HardlinkedClones
This may work in your mercurial.ini file:
[defaults]
clone = --pull
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Boggess, Rod <[email protected]>wrote:
> Perhaps those with more experience than I will correct me here, but I
> don’t believe there’s a setting to globally disable hard linking. However,
> those links should only happen when you clone locally: that is, if you’re
> cloning from and to the same drive. So don’t, just copy instead.****
>
> ** **
>
> If you wanted to make software changes, though, it is open source and you
> can make a custom build – there’s no source to purchase, Mercurial is an
> open source project. Of course, you’ll still have to understand the
> software source well enough to disable the creation of hard-links. I’m not
> familiar with the source, so I can’t tell you if that’s as simple as
> commenting out a couple lines and rebuilding, or deeply integrated code
> that requires a thorough understanding of the Windows API.****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* ALEX WYKEHAM [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 07, 2012 6:13 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [thg] Preventing hard-link creation****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi everyone,****
>
> ** **
>
> A colleague and I recently started using TortoiseHG at work (we’re
> statistical analysts) to keep track of our projects (Matlab and R mainly),
> and ran into an issue. The office runs a Disaster Recovery System (made by
> Neverfail) which apparently crashes whenever a hard link is written to any
> of the network drives, which we discovered while I was showing my colleague
> how to use it. After talking to our systems guy, the DRS doesn’t look like
> it’ll be updated to fix this any time soon, so the only way we’ll be able
> to continue using Mercurial is if we can guarantee that it will never try
> to write a hard link. ****
>
> ** **
>
> *Short of patching the source, does anybody know of a way to ensure that
> Tortoise will never try to create a hard link? I’m still not even sure
> which function was to blame the first time as we didn’t clone anything,
> just a load of merging, updating, committing, rolling back etc.*
>
> ** **
>
> Any help would be much appreciated; I really don’t want to have to stop
> using this tool!****
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> * *
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> *Alex*****
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