abort: outstanding uncommitted changes?

[Neal Becker]

Benoit Boissinot wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2008, at 07:24:08, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> hg merge
>>> abort: outstanding uncommitted changes
>>> hg diff
>>> hg status -m
>>>
>>> OK, how do I figure out what the "outstanding uncommitted changes"
>>> are??
>>
>> What does hg status say without -m?
>>
>> What does hg parents say?
> 
> And which extensions are in use ?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Benoit

There are a bunch of files marked: ! (deleted, but still tracked).

You know what would be great?  hg merge --explain.

Why doesn't hg diff --git show these files are deleted?  I think it should show all these things, then people wouldn't have to keep asking these stupid questions :)