Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 May 2007 17:44:23 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? |
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:17:58PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > >> Mercurial uses a strictly append-only model for updating its repo files, > >> but it looks like maybe an append operation didn't stick. > >> > > > > (Unless you're using the mq extension, which regularly truncates > > files. But you're definitely the first person to run into this sort of > > thing in any case.) > > > > Which I am, extensively, but not on the repo that got damaged. That's > why I was wondering about the nlink issues. If I qpop a bunch of > patches after just pushing them, won't it simply truncate the file?
Yep. But it will break links before doing that. Basically all opens go through a function that breaks links.
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