A possible issue in Mercurial
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Fri Jun 11 10:44:10 CDT 2010
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:23 +0200, Jason Harris wrote:
> Hi Matt & All,
>
> I can't really file a bug report on this since its so ill defined. However, you made it extremely clear that such things should somehow be reported...
>
> Here is one such issue which has come up in MacHg which might possibly be a core Mercurial problem, or it might be user error. I am really not sure...
>
> I haven't boiled it down.
> I don't know where its occurring.
> I can't reproduce it myself.
> I am not going to follow it up until someone else hits it at least once or twice... (since it could be in any number of places outside MacHg)
>
> But I am guessing it might occur in Mercurial and not MacHg. Here is the report:
>
> http://bitbucket.org/jfh/machg/issue/60/p3d3-cannot-push-pull-between-two
Symlinks on AFP are known to be busted:
http://markmail.org/message/3hcqaehm4fhqkln6
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-March/017632.html
In particular, it means that OS X fails to honor valid requests to
remove them shortly after creation. Which means locking on AFP has
problems.
Someone with some Macs should look into fixing it.
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