Argh!!!

Michael Smith michael.smith at thalesatm.com
Wed Mar 14 07:18:48 UTC 2007


Phillip Neiswanger wrote:

> I commit as root and the commit appears to work just fine.  By that I 
> mean  it didn't report any errors or die while trying to commit.  
> However, any  command that tries to work with the repository will 
> produce the error you  see at the beginning of this message.  Is there 
> anything that can be done  with the repository at this point?  I'm of 
> the opinion I should just  delete the .hg directory and init/add/commit 
> again.  I don't want to loose  all the history, but I can at least 
> continue if there's nothing that can  be done to reclaim the history.

As root can you chown the whole repository and clone structure back to 
your user id?
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