patch queues and having a patch own a file

[Tod Olson]

On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Tod Olson wrote:

> On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:54 AM, L. David Baron wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 2011-08-15 10:31 -0500, Tod Olson wrote:
>>> I'm using patch queues on a project, and am trying to figure out
>>> how to have a patch own a file.  The goal would be that a qpush of
>>> the patch cause the file to be created, and a qpop of the patch
>>> would remove the file.
>>> 
>>> For example: I've added a config file to someone else's code.  It
>>> seemed like "hg add" was the only way to get the patch queue to be
>>> aware of the new file, but now every time I run "hg qpop -a", the
>>> config file must be removed manually or reapplying the patches
>>> will fail.
>> 
>> If you're running an older version of Mercurial, you may need to
>> add:
>> 
>> [diff]
>> git = 1
>> 
>> in your ~/.hgrc (which probably isn't a bad idea anyway).
>> 
>> It used to be that using mq without this setting was madness, though
>> mq has gotten smarter since then (and I don't recall exactly when).
> 
> Yes, that could be part of it.  I'm using hg 1.6.2, and may not have set git=1 immediately.  I'll have to figure out how to recover.

That was definitely the problem, and it undermined my confidence in the "brain surgery" that Mads had mentioned.

Thanks, all!

-Tod