abort: untracked files in working directory differ from files in requested revision

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Wed Mar 10 06:57:04 UTC 2021


>>> "MK" == Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> writes:

>> hg status does not return anything
>> 
>> But 
>> 
>> hg up 585
>> build/master-english.pdf: untracked file differs

> My bet is:

> a) build/master-english.pdf exists just now

> b) you have *.pdf in .hgignore

>     { therefore status doesn't report it }

> c) you had commited (and later hg-removed) this pdf in the past, so
>    in rev 585 it was indeed commited.


> So, when you update to 585 there indeed is conflict between file
> commited then and file present now.

> Main cause of the confusion is that the file is hgignored now.

Right, it is quite a bit of a mess, if you start to ignore pdf files (as
you maybe should) but then are forced to add some but not all pdfs.

But I am not sure what would be the best workflow. Anyhow 
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