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

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

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