[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

[Tim Golden]

On 02/07/2010 08:25, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> 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).

Strictly: on the same volume. (Which will generally but not always amount
to: under the same drive letter)

TJG