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Mercurial tries to use hardlinks to share as much actual repository data as possible when doing a local clone. Maybe that's the part that's interfering here. Yo

by ygra 8y ago

Mercurial tries to use hardlinks to share as much actual repository data as possible when doing a local clone. Maybe that's the part that's interfering here. You can try using hg clone --pull instead of just hg clone, which will not do hardlinks. Don't have much experience with terribly large repositories in Mercurial, though. Those we have at work have maybe a few thousand files and less than 20k commits and they're not particularly taxing.

lwf 8y ago
`git clone` will also use hardlinks by default. --local, -l When the repository to clone from is on a local machine, this flag bypasses the normal "Git aware" transport mechanism and clones the repository by making a copy of HEAD and everything under objects and refs directories. The files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked to save space when possible. If the repository is specified as a local path (e.g., /path/to/repo), this is the default, and --local is essentially a no-op. If the repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is ignored (and we never use the local optimizations). Specifying --no-local will override the default when /path/to/repo is given, using the regular Git transport instead.