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Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Oct 1 11:40:37 CDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:38 -0400, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> Perhaps should be more precise...
> 
> >> Additionally, Mercurial on NTFS cannot hard link files in the 
> >> repositories of clones. 
> > 
> > Either there is a bug or you are wrong.
> 
> "Additionally, Mercurial on NTFS has only just recently been able to 
> hard link files in the repositories of clones. The ability depends on 
> using ActiveState Python."

Just recently in this context means about three years ago:

changeset:   1241:3b4f05ff3130
user:        Stephen Darnell
date:        Wed Sep 14 12:22:20 2005 -0500
summary:     Add support for cloning with hardlinks on windows.

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