identical change, different changesetid

Kastner Masilko, Friedrich Kastner-Masilko at at.festo.com
Thu May 5 18:28:52 UTC 2011


> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Haszlakiewicz, Eric
> 
> I have two repositories that appear to have the exact same changes, to
> the exact same files, at the exact same time, but the changeset id for
> the most recent changeset is different.  I'm trying to figure out why
> this is so.
> 
> I've examined the output of "hg log --debug" and everything I can see is
> the same.  The output of hg manifest is identical too.
> 
> If I create two bundles of the differing changeset from each repository,
> the bundles are different.  I figured out how to manually uncompress the
> bundles (using dd if=bundle bs=4 skip=1 | bzip2 -c -d), and I can see
> some obvious differences, but I don't know how to make sense of them.
> 
> How do I figure out why things are different?

Is the parent for both changesets exactly the same, too? I mean the hash, not the revision number.

As for the bundle I can't say too much, maybe the timestamp is somehow used as meta-data and therefore causes a binary diff?

Regards,
Fritz


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