Mercurial ate my repo.

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue May 31 20:42:12 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 00:50 +0000, nick at njames.co.uk wrote:
> Requires file contains 290kb of binary gibberish. You are correct in
> saying 1.5 doesn't solve the problem. Am downgrading to a truckload of
> cds. Thanks for your time. Nickj. 

That's almost certainly an OS or hardware glitch. Generally speaking,
software can't defend against operating system bugs scribbling on its
files.

I described how to repair it in my previous email if you care to recover
your repo.

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