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Expand clone help with hardlink information
author Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
date Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:50:30 -0700
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995 995
996 The location of the source is added to the new repository's 996 The location of the source is added to the new repository's
997 .hg/hgrc file, as the default to be used for future pulls. 997 .hg/hgrc file, as the default to be used for future pulls.
998 998
999 For efficiency, hardlinks are used for cloning whenever the source 999 For efficiency, hardlinks are used for cloning whenever the source
1000 and destination are on the same filesystem. Some filesystems, 1000 and destination are on the same filesystem (note this applies only
1001 such as AFS, implement hardlinking incorrectly, but do not report 1001 to the repository data, not to the checked out files). Some
1002 errors. In these cases, use the --pull option to avoid 1002 filesystems, such as AFS, implement hardlinking incorrectly, but
1003 hardlinking. 1003 do not report errors. In these cases, use the --pull option to
1004 avoid hardlinking.
1005
1006 You can safely clone repositories and checked out files using full
1007 hardlinks with
1008
1009 $ cp -al REPO REPOCLONE
1010
1011 which is the fastest way to clone. However, the operation is not
1012 atomic (making sure REPO is not modified during the operation is
1013 up to you) and you have to make sure your editor breaks hardlinks
1014 (Emacs and most Linux Kernel tools do so).
1004 1015
1005 See pull for valid source format details. 1016 See pull for valid source format details.
1006 1017
1007 It is possible to specify an ssh:// URL as the destination, but no 1018 It is possible to specify an ssh:// URL as the destination, but no
1008 .hg/hgrc will be created on the remote side. Look at the help text 1019 .hg/hgrc will be created on the remote side. Look at the help text
2927 _('hg cat [OPTION]... FILE...')), 2938 _('hg cat [OPTION]... FILE...')),
2928 "^clone": 2939 "^clone":
2929 (clone, 2940 (clone,
2930 [('U', 'noupdate', None, _('do not update the new working directory')), 2941 [('U', 'noupdate', None, _('do not update the new working directory')),
2931 ('r', 'rev', [], 2942 ('r', 'rev', [],
2932 _('a changeset you would like to have after cloning')), 2943 _('a changeset you would like to have after cloning (note this forces the usage of --pull)')),
2933 ('', 'pull', None, _('use pull protocol to copy metadata')), 2944 ('', 'pull', None, _('use pull protocol to copy metadata')),
2934 ('', 'uncompressed', None, 2945 ('', 'uncompressed', None,
2935 _('use uncompressed transfer (fast over LAN)')), 2946 _('use uncompressed transfer (fast over LAN)')),
2936 ('e', 'ssh', '', _('specify ssh command to use')), 2947 ('e', 'ssh', '', _('specify ssh command to use')),
2937 ('', 'remotecmd', '', 2948 ('', 'remotecmd', '',