[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration) (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Fri Jul 2 09:25:37 CEST 2010

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 02:08, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

No, you don't.  You make links to 200MB+ (unless you're on Windows, where I don't know how this works).  This is much cheaper than copying, though not as cheap as in git.  I don't hesitate to make branches in Mercurial.

It can still do hardlinks on Windows, provided the repo is on NTFS (and I think NTFS supports only hardlinks within the same partition).

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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