Verify's warning

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Aug 10 18:47:44 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 11:41 -0700, Vadim Chekan wrote:
> I ran "hg verify -v " on my repo today and discovered 3 warnings (but no
> errors) which looks like:
> warning: copy source of 'projects/ProjectA/js/jquery.tmpl.min.js' not in
> parents of 5c1548df829b
> 
> Quick googling tells me that verify's warning are not as bad as errors but
> still, should I be worried?
> And how that could happen, we have a "central repo" setup and clean clone
> from the central is affected too, so it is not my local screwup?

Commits created with old versions of Mercurial could occasionally record
incorrect copy sources. It's harmless and there's no good way to fix it
without a time machine.

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