Argh!!!

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:16:29AM -0600, Phillip Neiswanger wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:18:48 -0600, Michael Smith  
> <michael.smith at thalesatm.com> wrote:
> 
> >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?
> 
> The only files that were owned by root were the following:
> 
> .hg/dirstate
> .hg/store/data/app/views/some_view/__partial__01.rhtml.i
> .hg/store/data/public/stylesheets/some_view/partial__01.css.i
> .hg/store/undo
> 
> Changing ownership of those files did not correct the problem.   
> Interestingly, the ..partial.. files only exist in the .hg/store area of  
> the repository(?).  I had removed them from the working area of the  
> repository before commit'ing that final time.  Should I try removing those  
> files from the 'store' or would that make things worse?

You should probably start by doing 'hg clone --pull broken backup'.
Usually this will give you a clean repo. Then send the output of 'hg
verify' on your broken repo.

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