I've spent two hours this morning chasing this bug.
The cause that triggered the bug was that the /etc repository had been
cloned by a sysadmin to another directory in the same filesystem.
Therefore, to save space, Mercurial had made hardlinks on almost all the
files in the repository thus trigger
Thinking about this a bit more, it would be best to forget about the
exclude_internal function in that file.
For one, it ignores all directories from different SCMs. This could be
bad when I'm using bzr, but have .git directories... When I have ignored
those files is a different story I think.
It
This affects me too. But only ever since 12.04. I'm trying to use LTS
versions exclusively.
For now I am using bzr instead. It's not my preferred VCS, but it does
the job and is apparently better maintained in conjunction with
etckeeper.
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Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: etckeeper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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