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.
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [server]
> validate=1
> EOF
$ echo alpha > alpha
$ echo beta > beta
$ hg addr
adding alpha
adding beta
$ hg ci -m 1
$ cd ..
$ hg clone test test-clone
updating to branch default
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Test spurious filelog entries:
$ cd test-clone
$ echo blah >> beta
$ cp .hg/store/data/beta.i tmp1
$ hg ci -m 2
$ cp .hg/store/data/beta.i tmp2
$ hg -q rollback
$ mv tmp2 .hg/store/data/beta.i
$ echo blah >> beta
$ hg ci -m '2 (corrupt)'
Expected to fail:
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
beta@1: dddc47b3ba30 not in manifests
2 files, 2 changesets, 4 total revisions
1 integrity errors encountered!
(first damaged changeset appears to be 1)
[1]
$ hg push
pushing to $TESTTMP/test (glob)
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: received spurious file revlog entry
[255]
$ hg -q rollback
$ mv tmp1 .hg/store/data/beta.i
$ echo beta > beta
Test missing filelog entries:
$ cp .hg/store/data/beta.i tmp
$ echo blah >> beta
$ hg ci -m '2 (corrupt)'
$ mv tmp .hg/store/data/beta.i
Expected to fail:
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
beta@1: manifest refers to unknown revision dddc47b3ba30
2 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions
1 integrity errors encountered!
(first damaged changeset appears to be 1)
[1]
$ hg push
pushing to $TESTTMP/test (glob)
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: missing file data for beta:dddc47b3ba30e54484720ce0f4f768a0f4b6efb9 - run hg verify
[255]
$ cd ..