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

[Steve - Gadget Barnes]

On 02/10/2016 15:50, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Steve - Gadget Barnes
> <gadgetsteve at hotmail.com <mailto:gadgetsteve at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     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? 
> 
> 
> Linux, here is my uname output:
> Linux devsimbox 4.4.22-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 24 11:25:42 UTC
> 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I'm doing the copying by using the "cp" command and that's it.
>  
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> I think my filesystem is ext4.
>  
> 
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>     Steve (Gadget) Barnes
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Are you using `cp -r foo/stuff bar` or just `cp foo/stuff bar` - on my
system trying to copy a directory without specifying recursive results
in an error message and no files being copied?
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Steve (Gadget) Barnes
Any opinions in this message are my personal opinions and do not reflect
those of my employer.