--- a/mercurial/archival.py	Thu Feb 28 19:08:04 2008 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/archival.py	Thu Feb 28 22:39:59 2008 +0100
@@ -214,8 +214,10 @@
     m = ctx.manifest()
     items = m.items()
     items.sort()
-    write('.hg_archival.txt', 0644, False,
-          lambda: 'repo: %s\nnode: %s\n' % (hex(repo.changelog.node(0)), hex(node)))
+    if repo.ui.configbool("ui", "archivemeta", True):
+        write('.hg_archival.txt', 0644, False,
+              lambda: 'repo: %s\nnode: %s\n' % (
+                  hex(repo.changelog.node(0)), hex(node)))
     for filename, filenode in items:
         write(filename, m.execf(filename) and 0755 or 0644, m.linkf(filename),
               lambda: repo.file(filename).read(filenode))