Copying vs of cloning?

[Micah Cowan]

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Matt Mackall wrote:
>> Your assumption would be correct only if you could demonstrate that two
>> newly cloned repositories do _not_ differ in their .hg/dirstate files. I
>> tried, and they do.
> 
> Nonetheless, a copy _is_ a valid repository, provided the copy is made while
> no one is adding to the repo. In which case you'll get a completely
> working repository that will make verify unhappy. The dirstate is
> mostly a cache and will correct itself.

Right... that was the point I was trying to make, in demonstrating that
even two clones will differ in their dirstate files (and that therefore,
a difference between dirstate files when one is a copy doesn't mean
anything, in and of itself).

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Micah J. Cowan
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http://micah.cowan.name/

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