Inexplicable “abort: untracked files in working directory”

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Sat Feb 8 19:49:18 UTC 2014


On 02/08/2014 06:47 PM, Pietro Moras wrote:
>
> At present this the diagnosis: going back to previous Changeset, a 
> given file should be automatically erased, but for some reason 
> couldn't. Therefore then, going forth to the “tip” Changeset, the 
> lamented
> “abort: untracked files in working directory differ from files in 
> requested revision”.
> That for the diagnosis.
>

No, that is an incorrect and vague description of something that 
probably is a user error or caused by something unrelated to Mercurial.

> What about the therapy?
>

Try to describe it in detail, in such a way that other can reproduce the 
problem. That will probably make you realize what the problem is.

/Mads
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