Inexplicable “abort: untracked files in working directory”

[Martin Geisler]

Pietro Moras <studio-pm at hotmail.com> writes:

Hi Pietro,

> 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.

May I ask what email client you're using? Your text looks almost like a
poem above with linebreaks in unusual places. That is, I see "But,
<newline> you see" and so on.

To make this a little on-topic: when describing your problems, it would
be helpful if you would include a copy-paste from a command line
session. Something like

  $ hg update 17
  abort: untracked files in working directory differ from files in requested
revision
  $ hg status
  <status output>
  $ hg revert the-bad-file
  <some error from Mercurial>

That is, show us in precise, unambiguous terms the exact command you
execute and the exact output. Show us 'hg status' before and after the
update that causes the problem. Show us the output of 'hg verify'.

-- 
Martin Geisler

http://google.com/+MartinGeisler
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