It's going to be the case every time you mount a Windows file system, for example. A big part of the problem is that a project like Mercurial doesn't have cont

It's going to be the case every time you mount a Windows file system, for example. A big part of the problem is that a project like Mercurial doesn't have control over what files people use it on. They have to design for the pessimal scenario, because when the tool breaks, users complain.