Checking hg exit code in Windows batch

[Jan Vrany]

Hi Jerome,

this actually helped, thanks a lot!

Best, Jan



On 08/07/14 16:37, Jérôme Godbout wrote:
> Just some info that may help, since %ERRORLEVEL% is a pseudo variable,
> maybe you can try to use the errorlevel directly. %ERRORLEVEL% is an
> equivalent to do the following:
> *if errorlevel 1 echo Error*
>
> maybe you can try to test errorlevel instead, maybe %ERRORLEVEL% was
> modified into your setup.
> You may also tryt o reset the error level before doing the operation you
> want to check:
> *set errorlevel=0*
> *... operation here ...*
> *if errorlevel 1 ...*
> *
> *
> Maybe that can help find the problem,
> Jerome Godbout
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Jan Vrany <jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz
> <mailto:jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I tried with 3.0.1 and same result.
>     Funny enough, I tried on another Win 7 machine (almost the same setup)
>     and there it works.
>
>     I don't really understand why is that. But apparently the problem is not
>     only in mercurial but rather some combination of OS, DLLs, hell
>     knows what.
>
>     Sorry, I should have tried that before posting here.
>
>     Jan
>
>     On 07/07/14 19:42, Jérôme Godbout wrote:
>
>         Hi, I tried with mercurial 3.0.1, it worked for me
>         c:\MyProject> hg update
>         0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
>
>         c:\MyProject> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
>         0
>
>         c:\MyProject> hg update -r toto123
>         abort: unknown revision 'toto123'!
>
>         c:\MyProject> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
>         255
>
>         You may want to update to 3.0.1 or above to solve your problem.
>         Haven't
>         try into a batch.
>         Jerome Godbout
>
>
>
>         On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Jan Vrany
>         <jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz <mailto:jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz>
>         <mailto:jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz <mailto:jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz>>__>
>         wrote:
>
>              Hi there,
>
>              I'm struggling to check exit code og hg command on Windows.
>              I have a .bat file doing something like
>
>              hg --cwd %PKGDIR% update -r %REVISION%
>              IF [%ERRORLEVEL%] NEQ [0] (
>                  ECHO Cannot update working copy in %PKGDIR%
>                  GOTO error
>              )
>
>              but it seems that %ERRORLEVEL% is always 0, even if revision is
>              completely bogus. I tried following in Windows 'Command
>         Prompt':
>
>              H:\Projects\someproject>hg update -r bogus
>              abort: unknown revision 'bogus'!
>
>              H:\Projects\someproject>>echo %errorlevel%
>              0
>
>              i.e., same result, I got 0. On Linux it works as I would expect
>              (getting 255). The system is Win 7 64 bit box with
>         Mercurial 2.9.2
>              installed from .msi package downloaded from selenic.
>
>              Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>              Thanks a lot.
>
>              Best, Jan
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