Inexplicable “abort: untracked files in working directory”

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 02/08/2014 04:56 PM, Pietro Moras wrote:
>
> I'm getting a, to me, unjustified and therefore inexplicable:
>
> “abort: untracked files in working directory differ from files in 
> requested revision”
>
> when navigating along the development history of a versioned project.
> That is: going back and forth between different Changesets with such a:
> “update -v -r </Id/>” command.
> All that without introducing any whatsoever change into the Project.
>
> How to interpret such an “abort” and, more important, how to prevent it?
>
>
> Of course the Project comprises more than one file, all tracked and 
> committed ok. Plus, by try-and-error, I “discovered” that just 
> deleting the named file (well existing into the Working Directory) I 
> could execute the same “update -v -r </Id/>” command ok, with a 
> consequent re-creation of the lamented file.
>
> Anyhow, a behavior easily reproducible and about which I could easily 
> offer further details, if asked.
>
> It's serious, as I'm losing confidence in the whole Mercurial system. 
> Thanks.
>

Please do.

/Mads
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