README
author Patrick Mezard <pmezard@gmail.com>
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:51:09 +0200
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win32: correctly break hardlinks on network drives (issue761) win32.nlinks() was often returning 1 instead of the correct hardlinks count when reading from network drives. This made commit or push to a repository on a network share to fail breaking the hardlinks in the datastore, possibly causing integrity errors in repositories linked locally on the remote side. Here is what the MSDN says about GetFileInformationByHandle(): Depending on the underlying network features of the operating system and the type of server connected to, the GetFileInformationByHandle function may fail, return partial information, or full information for the given file. In practice, we never got the correct hardlinks count when reading from and to many combinations of Window XP, 2003, Vista and 7, via network drives or RDP shares. It always returned 1 instead. The only setup returning an accurate links count was a samba on Debian. To avoid this, Mercurial now breaks the hardlinks unconditionally when writing to a network drive.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.