Copying vs of cloning?

[Jens Alfke]

On 2 Oct '07, at 3:59 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> Speaking of backups and Mercurial, is it clever to back up a clone of
> a repo instead of the repo itself

Only if you don't mind your uncommitted work not being backed up...

(In which case, as Matt said, it's probably more efficient to just  
push the repo to a backup repository in a safe location, since version  
control is itself a specialized form of backup.)

--Jens