Files marked obsolete

[Simon King]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Ralph Alvy <ralph at ralphalvy.com> wrote:

> Please excuse my lack of experience here. I’m very new to version control.
> After trying both Git and Mercurial, I found Mercurial much more intuitive.
> I’m using SourceTree with Mercurial.
>
> After deleting 2 unnecessary source files, my SourceTree FileList shows,
> as expected, those 2 files are marked with a '-' sign. No problem. I assume
> doing a Commit with those Staged will remove them from Tracking. But I also
> see 2 new files marked with '?' that are copies of the 2 deleted files,
> appended with ".obsolete" and a timestamp. What happens if I Stage those
> files before doing the Commit?
>
>
I doubt those files were created either by Mercurial or SourceTree; I
assume they were created by some other tool that you are using at the same
time.

Mercurial will treat them just like any other file - if you use "hg add" or
the SourceTree equivalent, and then commit them, Mercurial will start
tracking them.

Hope that helps,

Simon
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