Problem with binary files (images)

[Smith, Michael]

> I'm keeping one of my sites on mercurial repository. I've observed, that
> sometimes, when I modify some of my layout images and commit them
> (mercurial installed locally sees the changes and add it to commit) the
> site server (where I keep my repo) doesn't apply changes to this binary
> files (images). Text files are always updated with no problems. How to
> prevent such a problems? Does the problem may be in different versions
> of mercurial on developers of the site computers and server?

A bit more information would be helpful. I keep many of my web sites in mercurial and I have not had any problems with binary files. The way I work is as follows:

I edit on my workstation, in my clone
I commit my changes
A commit hook does a push to the web server
On the web server a changegroup hook does an automatic "hg update"

For me this process is 100% reliable. I am running ubuntu on the client and netbsd on the server.

I suggest you check the status of the repository on the server. Are there any locally modified files? If you modify files directly on the server you run the risk of creating a new head when you push, which could lead to the problem you describe (or a version of it).

-- 
Michael Smith




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