corrupt local repository
Pierre-Yves David
pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Wed Jun 10 16:24:04 UTC 2020
That's very odd, it seems like a fresh corruption of a very new
repository I have head of that in a very long time.
I see you are using a rc version, can you move the latest official version ?
Is there anything else strange that happened like a power failure on the
machine or something similar ? Any process being abrutly killed ? (not
that this point should matters ?)
On 6/10/20 5:55 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>> "PD" == Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:
>
> > Is this as new repostiory that you never pushed anywhere ?
>
> Never ever.
>
> > What is the underlying file system ?
>
> Ext4 (Ubuntu 16.04)
>
> > Do you have any build/cleanup script running as part of your
> > development ? possibly deleting file automatically ?
>
> Nope,
> > On 6/8/20 8:42 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>>>> "PD" == Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> >> > Sounds like you have at least two different files whose data
> >> are
> >> > missing. How have you been using your repository ? is the repository
> >> > server side corrupted ?
> >> I create this repository this morning and just committed around 10
> >> times.
> >> However I did a lot of renaming of directories and sometimes I
> >> committed without having run hg addremove before, may that is the
> >> reason.
>
> > That should not matter. Do you use symlink in the mix ?
>
> No
>
>
> >> I also found out that
> >> hg convert --config convert.hg.ignoreerrors=True Corr/ Repair
> >> Is basically worseless, the resulting repo contains only half of my
> >> commits.
>
> > Well, it cannot "invent" the missing content, so I guess it simply
> > dropped the associated commit
>
> So it seems that this repository cannot be recovered.
>
> I am running
> hg version 5.2rc0+20200125
>
> And the last time I suffered a repository corruption is I think with
> 3.8.
>
> But it seems difficult to track down and to know how to avoid this in
> the feature. I still think it has to do with the amount of renaming I
> did, but I have no proof and no recipe.
>
>
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