Copied changes into a different directory and Mercurial does not notice it, why?

[Steve - Gadget Barnes]

On 01/10/2016 22:29, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm doing this in Linux, with Hg Version 3.9.1 and I do all of the work
> in the command line.
> 
> Lets say in my repository, I have two directories, "foo" and "bar". 
> "foo" has a directory called "stuff" and inside of "stuff" is a text
> file "morestuff.txt".  Something like this:
> 
> repo/foo/stuff/morestuff.txt
>   +  /bar
> 
> I copied the directory "stuff" (with "morestuff.txt") into "bar" via
> command line.  I was fully expecting to see "morestuff.txt" displayed as
> an unknown file after running hg status.  However, nothing was displayed
> at all!
> 
> This was weird.  And every time I delete this and re-didi it, same
> result (initially thought that I mis-typed and messed up something much
> much earlier.)  Odd... so I made a small experiment.  I named a the
> directory inside of "bar" "blah" and copied "morestuff.txt" into "blah",
> so it would look like this:
> 
> repo/bar/blah/morestuff.txt
> 
> Now, when I run hg status, Mercurial clearly marks "morestuff.txt" as an
> unknown file.
> 
> Why is this?  In the entire repository, am I not allowed to have
> directories of the same name even if they are part of the filesystem at
> different points?
> 
> This was very bizarre.
> 
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Which OS are you on and how are you copying the directory? I have just
tried to reproduce your issue, (hg 3.9.1 on Win10), and I am not seeing
the problem:

F:\toolbuild\repo>xcopy foo\stuff bar\stuff
Does bar\stuff specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)? D
foo\stuff\morestuff.txt
1 File(s) copied

F:\toolbuild\repo>dir bar
 Volume in drive F is SharedData
 Volume Serial Number is D481-EE26

 Directory of F:\toolbuild\repo\bar

02/10/2016  06:21    <DIR>          .
02/10/2016  06:21    <DIR>          ..
02/10/2016  06:21    <DIR>          stuff
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  251,855,003,648 bytes free

F:\toolbuild\repo>dir bar\stuff
 Volume in drive F is SharedData
 Volume Serial Number is D481-EE26

 Directory of F:\toolbuild\repo\bar\stuff

02/10/2016  06:21    <DIR>          .
02/10/2016  06:21    <DIR>          ..
02/10/2016  06:18                13 morestuff.txt
               1 File(s)             13 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  251,855,003,648 bytes free

F:\toolbuild\repo>hg status
? bar\stuff\morestuff.txt

I have seen something a little similar due to a drive with an excessive
cashe time where the OS reported that file operations had finished when
they hadn't really.

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Steve (Gadget) Barnes
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