diff -r 53872e2be33a -r 4fc63e22b1fe mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Thu Jun 30 23:23:12 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Thu Jun 30 23:28:16 2005 -0800
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
         if ui.verbose:
             ui.status("description:\n")
             ui.status(description)
-            ui.status("\n")
+            ui.status("\n\n")
         else:
             ui.status("summary:     %s\n" % description.splitlines()[0])
     ui.status("\n")
@@ -295,7 +295,9 @@
     d = dircleanup(dest)
 
     link = 0
-    if not source.startswith("http://"):
+    if not (source.startswith("http://") or
+            source.startswith("hg://") or
+            source.startswith("old-http://")):
         d1 = os.stat(dest).st_dev
         d2 = os.stat(source).st_dev
         if d1 == d2: link = 1