Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 10256:279c8a73fde1 stable
share: be more explicit about the dangers of rollback.
| author | Greg Ward <greg-hg@gerg.ca> |
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| date | Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:05:06 -0500 |
| parents | 26fc868cb8b0 |
| children | a9c0d6060827 d58d7441b211 |
| files | hgext/share.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/hgext/share.py Wed Jan 06 03:27:15 2010 +0100 +++ b/hgext/share.py Wed Jan 13 22:05:06 2010 -0500 @@ -14,8 +14,15 @@ Initialize a new repository and working directory that shares its history with another repository. - NOTE: actions that change history such as rollback or moving the - source may confuse sharers. + NOTE: using rollback or extensions that destroy/modify history + (mq, rebase, etc.) can cause considerable confusion with shared + clones. In particular, if two shared clones are both updated to + the same changeset, and one of them destroys that changeset with + rollback, the other clone will suddenly stop working: all + operations will fail with "abort: working directory has unknown + parent". The only known workaround is to use debugsetparents on + the broken clone to reset it to a changeset that still exists + (e.g. tip). """ return hg.share(ui, source, dest, not noupdate)