Can't see changes

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-07-27 19:32, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 07:09 PM, Tony Cate wrote:
>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Kevin Bullock wrote:
>>> This is when you tried to clone the _restored_ repo? What does `hg verify` say?
>>
>>
>> It's not pretty…
>>
>> data/My Test Project/.DS_Store.i at 0: missing revlog!
>>   0: empty or missing My Test Project/.DS_Store
>>   My Test Project/.DS_Store at 0: 5e6e9fced71a in manifests not found
>>   My Test Project/.DS_Store at 11: 5b2f6a908129 in manifests not found
>>   data/My Test Project/Project Logo/.DS_Store.i at 0: missing revlog!
> 
> So you tracked a .DS_Store file, Mercurial stored the revision store in 
> a file named .DS_Store.i , but unfortunately your file system and/or 
> time machine doesn't handle these files as ordinary files and they were 
> lost.
> 
> Mercurial introduced a new internal repository format in 1.1 that 
> avoided using these names, but existing local repositories continues to 
> use the old format so old clients (on other platforms) keep working. 
> (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/fncacheRepoFormat )
> 
> Recovery of your repository is described on 
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RepositoryCorruption .
> 
> To avoid this kind of problems convert to the new format by creating a 
> fresh clone with --pull .

I think Tony wants the dotencode repo format, which we introduced with
mercurial 1.7 to also protect against this kind of damage:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UpgradeNotes#A1.7:_dotencode_repository_format

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UpgradingMercurial#Upgrading_and_downgrading_repository_formats

The dotencode format is the default for all newly created repositories.