RE: Inexplicable “abort: untracked files in working directory”

[Pietro Moras]

But,
you see, THAT's precisely the problem. I mean:>
 a
file ... that you haven't told me to track
   Not true, it has
been.>
 apparently
has changes in it
      Equally not
true: no change has been introduced.


Mr. Poor User
(that's me) is simply testing if in a Mercurial version controlled
project one can really move back and forth among committed Revisions.
And the result is that “abort: ...”.
This is part of
an ambitious project of thorough Test & Documentation of an
advanced Python IDE, where Mercurial is available as an integrated
add-on tool. 

My conclusion so
far, also thanks to the support obtained in this Forum (thanks!), is
that the GUI positioned between Mr. P. User and the Mercurial
“engine” introduced some flaws.
Happily the IDE
designer agreed with me, and now he is actively chasing that flaw.
I'm confident he will succeed.



So, now I'm
already working on a next issue, related to the “bisect”
technique. 
See you, then. And thanks!












 - P.M.



> Subject: Re: Inexplicable “abort: untracked files in working directory”
> From: mpm at selenic.com
> To: studio-pm at hotmail.com
> CC: mercurial at selenic.com
> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 13:39:12 -0600
> 
> On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 15:56 +0000, 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”
> 
> This almost certainly means exactly what it says. But let me translate
> it to more verbose English:
> 
> "Hey user, you have a file sitting here named foo that you haven't told
> me to track. If I update, I will be forced to destroy it, even though it
> apparently has changes in it that you might not want to lose. So I'm
> aborting to avoid accidental data loss. You're very welcome."
> 
> If you don't mind losing the changes in that file.. then delete it.
> 
 		 	   		  
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