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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] [kenfs] the mercurial repo problem
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This is a problem perhaps two of us
have on Plan 9 (hi Erik): mercurial
repositories contain files with long
names and/or spaces.

I realised that `lnfs' is a neat solution
to this problem (though you have to
remember to run it each time you're
in the repo) for the time-being. In
particular, it doesn't hog up ram (the
way ramfs does... :), and it doesn't
rely on the repo .hg dir already being
there (the way hgfs does), which is
what usually contains the long names.
And we can use `unlnfs' to export.

Just for future reference -- I noticed that
this didn't come up when we last discussed
this issue.

As always -

BUGS
          This exists only to shame us into getting a real long name
          file server working.
(Yeah, yeah - fossilheads can SUCK EGGS :-)


Best,
ak