hg update and deleted files

[Tom Karzes]

That's the work-around for this bug, but the problem is it's completely
manual:  Instead of just doing "hg update", you now need to follow up by
doing (1) hg status, then (2) for the files listed as deleted, "hg
revert" each of them.  (Doing "hg revert -all" only works if you have no
uncommitted changed, which in general may not be the case.)

 

People have written wrappers for "hg update" to do just this, all
because of a stupid bug which previously didn't exist.  It's very
frustrating.

 

Tom

 

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From: Glenn Hutchings [via Mercurial]
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Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:53 AM
To: Tom Karzes
Subject: Re: hg update and deleted files

 

On 31 May, 02:51, Tom Karzes <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> With the old version of Mercurial, "hg update" would restore deleted
files. 
> The new version does not, unless you specify the "-c" option (i.e. 
> "--check").  This option is supposed to give an error if there are 
> uncommitted changes, so it almost seems like a bug that it changes the
way 
> deleted files are handled.  I'm guessing that it happens to detect
them due 
> to the additional processing, and as a side effect they get restored
by the 
> update. 

There's another command called 'revert' which can restore deleted 
files.  If you were using a very old hg version, you might not have 
been aware of it (not sure when it was introduced).  Its functionality 
overlaps with 'update', but it can operate on individual files, 
whereas 'update' is designed to work on the whole repo (and that's 
probably why it was created). 
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