[I give up using the hg-git plugin for the moment] (was: hg-git plugin, fast forward a git repo.)

[Malcolm Matalka]

Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

>    > Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>
>    > It's hard to track exactly what you're doing and what you are trying to
>    > do and what is happening.  It was be really helpful if you gave more
>    > complete information when you asked questions, read the output entirely,
>    > and asked pointed questions based on it.  In particular, the output of
>    > any command you ran is clearly very valuable in helping diagnose what is
>    > going on .
>
>    > So as I said, if you start with your initial repository state, what
>    > happens if you do:
>
>    > hg up strings
>    > hg book master
>
>    > What is the output?
> Of hg log -G?

No, literally, when you run those two commands, what is the output?
Generally when you do hg book <foo>, hg outputs if it is doing a
fast-forward or not.

>
> @  changeset:   195:b2396f3ceca3
> |  bookmark:    master
> |  bookmark:    strings
> |  tag:         default/strings
> |  tag:         tip
> |  user:        User 1
> |  date:        Sun Oct 06 21:41:11 2019 -0400
> |  summary:     Fix spurious character inseted.
> |
>
>    > Since you are doing hg-git stuff, I don't know if hg out works as
>    > expected, but you likely need the -B parameter.  But early you sad you
>    > did a push and nothing happened, and now you stated that you do not want
>    > to do the push I suggested because you don't like to push without
>    > knowing things, so did you try the push or did you not?
>
> Sorry I never pushed I always run 
>  hg out 
>
> In order to make sure what would happened if I pushed.
>
>    > The documentation says it compares bookmarks, and -B doesn't take a
>    > bookmark.  You can tell because the parameter does not take a parameter
>    > in the documentation.
>
> Ok, I think I give up, I will treat this repository using git and merge
> the two branches there. Makes me nervous that I don't really control
> what I am doing and I need to merge and to push.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Uwe