stale journal.dirstate !!

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:32 -0800, Sreedhar Govardhana wrote:
> >>  I came across a situation that 'push' is failing due to a stale 
> >> 'journal.dirstate' file.  'verify'
> >> doesn't show any issues and so is 'recover'.  I manually removed the 
> >> file and did a push
> >> from my child it went fine. But I am not sure about the consequences of 
> >> this manual deletion.
> >> Is it going to be a problem ?
> >>     
> >
> > Manually removed the file? It should have to you to run recover and
> > recover should have cleaned up for you.
> >   
> I did ran recover, but it failed saying "No interrupted transaction 
> available ". I also ran 'verify' and
> it also returned no errors. Then as the last option I removed manually.

Hmm, seems we look only for "journal" and not for "journal.dirstate".
Not sure how you got the second one without the first.

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