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Fix hg clone race with writer Most read operations in hg don't need locks because we order reads and writes for consistency. Clone is an exception to this as we're copying entire file histories and could end up with more file history copied than we have commits. For now, make clone take a lock on the source repo. Non-hardlinked clone should eventually be changed to use lockless pull.
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date Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:53:47 -0800
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1 HGMERGE(1)
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2 ==========
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3 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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4 v0.1, 27 May 2005
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6 NAME
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7 ----
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8 hgmerge - default wrapper to merge files in Mercurial SCM system
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10 SYNOPSIS
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11 --------
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12 'hgmerge' local ancestor remote
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14 DESCRIPTION
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15 -----------
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16 The hgmerge(1) command provides a graphical interface to merge files in the
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17 Mercurial system. It is a simple wrapper around kdiff3, merge(1) and tkdiff(1),
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18 or simply diff(1) and patch(1) depending on what is present on the system.
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20 hgmerge(1) is used by the Mercurial SCM if the environment variable HGMERGE is
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21 not set.
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23 AUTHOR
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24 ------
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25 Written by Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@free.fr>
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27 SEE ALSO
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28 --------
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29 hg(1) - the command line interface to Mercurial SCM
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31 COPYING
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32 -------
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33 Copyright (C) 2005 Matt Mackall.
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34 Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
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35 Public License (GPL).