abort: repository default not found!

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 25.04.2008 09:38, Peter Teoh wrote:
> A resend, please help......
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After I copy my entire directory tree to another directory, and then
>>  attempted a "hg pull", I got the following output:
>>
>>  abort: repository default not found!

Inside the .hg dir is a file hgrc which contains some path aliases.
Path "default" seems to be defunct in your case.

The default path in hgrc is set as a side effect of hg clone.

The default path is used if you execute "hg pull" without saying
from where you want to pull. See "hg help pull".

>>
>>  Question is:   it is definitely ok that I can move my directory
>>  around, right?

Yes. It is ok to copy the repository directory with normal
file system commands (for example using "cp -R" on FreeBSD).

But you should make sure that no hg process is writing to your
repository during the copying process. If you can't guarantee that,
then you should do a "hg clone" to a backup repo and copy that.

To verify that a repository is consistent and fine, use "hg verify".