Copying vs of cloning?

[Andrei Gaponenko]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> 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???
> 
> dirstate contains timestamps of the time each file was last known to
> be unmodified (checked out, checked in, etc.), which will vary from
> clone to clone. But if you do a cp -r, the dirstate will correct
> itself on the next stat.

Matt, Ricardo, thank you for your replies!

That was helpful.

Andrei

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