Copying vs of cloning?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:43:10PM -0700, Andrei Gaponenko wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If one copies a Mercurial repository (with "cp -pr", or using tar), is
> the copy a valid repository?   I thought that after
> 
>     cd /someplace
>     hg clone /a/parent/repo
> 
> copying the newly created repo to /otherplace would be equivalent to
> 
>     cd /otherplace
>     hg clone /a/parent/repo
> 
> However running "diff -r" on two such clones I see that their
> .hg/dirstate files differ.  If I copied repo instead of cloning they
> would be identical.  So copying does not seem to be equivalent to
> cloning.
> 
> What is the difference???

only the repo-data is copied during a clone, the working copy (and the
dirstate is created afterward.

You can try the experiment with a clone -U (no working copy).

regards,

Benoit

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