lost .hg/data/.hgtags.d

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Jul 1 02:14:03 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:47:50AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:42:45AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > It just happened again and I'm again sure it wasn't me deleting it.
> > 
> > I wonder if the hardlinked working copy could matter, but I doubt since
> > this file is inside .hg and my optimization doesn't affect files inside
> > .hg.
> 
> Sorry for the self followup, but I just noticed that the file is missing
> also from the tree I was cloning from. So I now can't exclude such tree
> was messed up in the first place (that's a mirror of kernel.org/hg
> without any modification to it). So for now let's forget this issue, and
> I hope it doesn't happen again ;).

Note that 'hg verify' is pretty cheap in Mercurial. Even for repos the
size of the full kernel history, it only takes a few minutes.

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