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 a
$ cd a
$ echo 123 > a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m "a" -u a
$ cd ..
$ hg init b
$ cd b
$ echo 321 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg commit -m "b" -u b
$ hg pull ../a
pulling from ../a
searching for changes
abort: repository is unrelated
[255]
$ hg pull -f ../a
pulling from ../a
searching for changes
warning: repository is unrelated
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg heads
changeset: 1:9a79c33a9db3
tag: tip
parent: -1:000000000000
user: a
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: a
changeset: 0:01f8062b2de5
user: b
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: b
$ cd ..