update: teach hg to override untracked dir with a tracked file on update
This is a fix to an old problem when Mercurial got confused by an
untracked folder with the same name as one of the files in a commit
hg was trying to update to. It is pretty safe to remove this folder if
it is empty. Backing up an empty folder seems to go against Mercurial's
"don't track dirs" philosophy.
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> convert=
> EOF
Prepare orig repo
$ hg init orig
$ cd orig
$ echo foo > foo
$ HGUSER='user name' hg ci -qAm 'foo'
$ cd ..
Explicit --authors
$ cat > authormap.txt <<EOF
> user name = Long User Name
>
> # comment
> this line is ignored
> EOF
$ hg convert --authors authormap.txt orig new
initializing destination new repository
ignoring bad line in author map file authormap.txt: this line is ignored
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
0 foo
writing author map file $TESTTMP/new/.hg/authormap (glob)
$ cat new/.hg/authormap
user name=Long User Name
$ hg -Rnew log
changeset: 0:d89716e88087
tag: tip
user: Long User Name
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: foo
$ rm -rf new
Implicit .hg/authormap
$ hg init new
$ mv authormap.txt new/.hg/authormap
$ hg convert orig new
ignoring bad line in author map file $TESTTMP/new/.hg/authormap: this line is ignored (glob)
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
0 foo
$ hg -Rnew log
changeset: 0:d89716e88087
tag: tip
user: Long User Name
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: foo