Mercurial wipes repository history!?

[Jon Ribbens]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 16:36, Jon Ribbens
> <jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> > Well, it's easy to imagine circumstances in which losing the
> > repository would be disastrous,
> 
> Not that easy, no? It's just a clone, you can clone again.

Err, any circumstance in which the repository contains checked-in
changes that are not stored elsewhere makes it obviously disastrous
if that repository goes boom.

> > and it's easy to imagine other
> > circumstances in which losing the working directory would be
> > disastrous.
> 
> rollback doesn't lose working directories. If it did, that would be a
> serious bug.

Losing repositories is a far *worse* bug, if that's indeed what
happened.