Copying vs of cloning?

[Brad Larsen]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:43:10 -0400, Andrei Gaponenko <agaponenko at lbl.gov>  
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???

clone by default tries to use hard links where possible (I think).  The  
--pull option will make an actual copy (again, I think).

Cheers,
Brad Larsen