Perhaps those with more experience than I will correct me here, but I
don't believe there's a setting to globally disable hard linking.
However, those links should only happen when you clone locally: that is,
if you're cloning from and to the same drive. So don't, just copy
instead.
If you wanted to make software changes, though, it is open source and
you can make a custom build - there's no source to purchase, Mercurial
is an open source project. Of course, you'll still have to understand
the software source well enough to disable the creation of hard-links.
I'm not familiar with the source, so I can't tell you if that's as
simple as commenting out a couple lines and rebuilding, or deeply
integrated code that requires a thorough understanding of the Windows
API.
From: ALEX WYKEHAM [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 6:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [thg] Preventing hard-link creation
Hi everyone,
A colleague and I recently started using TortoiseHG at work (we're
statistical analysts) to keep track of our projects (Matlab and R
mainly), and ran into an issue. The office runs a Disaster Recovery
System (made by Neverfail) which apparently crashes whenever a hard link
is written to any of the network drives, which we discovered while I was
showing my colleague how to use it. After talking to our systems guy,
the DRS doesn't look like it'll be updated to fix this any time soon, so
the only way we'll be able to continue using Mercurial is if we can
guarantee that it will never try to write a hard link.
Short of patching the source, does anybody know of a way to ensure that
Tortoise will never try to create a hard link? I'm still not even sure
which function was to blame the first time as we didn't clone anything,
just a load of merging, updating, committing, rolling back etc.
Any help would be much appreciated; I really don't want to have to stop
using this tool!
Alex
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