How to spot a clean/non-clean Mercurial update

[Peter Toft]

Den 2012-12-13 00:54, Mads Kiilerich skrev:
> Peter Toft wrote, On 12/12/2012 02:55 PM:
>
>> Hi again I need your help to predict whether a "hg pull -u" will 
>> give a
>> clean update or not.
>
> A hack like
> hg diff -r.:tip | patch --dry-run --forward
> might give a useful approximation in most cases.
>
> A better answer is this: You should never make an update with
> uncommitted changes in the working directory. If you follow that 
> advice
> then you know that the working directory is clean and the update will 
> be
> smooth.
>
> /Mads

Perfect Mads (again) - thanx a mil!

Even though I understand the "never update with uncomitted changes" - 
this
might not be easy for me, but that part we can discuss over a beer some 
day
:)

/pto

-- 
Peter Toft, PhD
http://petertoft.dk