hg clone vs. VFAT problem

[Sebastian Krämer]

Adrian Buehlmann schrieb am 30.09.2008 14:39:
> On 30.09.2008 12:26, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
>  
>> This all is kind of sad. I had high hopes that mercurial would enable 
>> me to
>> transfer source code between platforms.
>>     
>
> Sure it does.
>   
I know. :)

>> Of course, hg itself probably does
>> that -- I might try to change the usb stick filesystem to ntfs and 
>> see if
>> that helps. After all I'm wondering about the small count of error 
>> reports
>> I found on the web :) . Am I overlooking something? Or am I the only one
>> who transfers source code from/to windows with a mobile device?
>>     
>
> The repository format on unix/Linux and windows is the same, so you
> can copy the files between them (as long as you don't hit the
> maximum path length limit of 260 characters on Windows).
>
> So, as a workaround, you can copy the repository root directory
> to the usb stick using normal recursive directory copy commands
> (e.g. "cp -R" on FreeBSD).
>   

Ah ok, I admit I didn't consider that (although it's quite obvious). On 
the other hand, I still want to do it "the mercurial way", reason being 
that I don't want to guarantee that there are never any changes on the 
one or other system that would get overwritten. When copying, I *really* 
have to make sure that I always have the most recent copy before making 
local changes, and I don't like that.

But thanks for your answer, it's appreciated.
For the record, I solved the problem by ntfs'ing the usb stick, I 
figured that write support via ntfs-3g is good enough to depend on for 
this purpose.

Sebastian