hg diff/status <dir> problem

[Andrei Vermel]

This works fine for me with current main branch.

Andrei

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnny Stenback" <jst at mozilla.com>
To: "Andrei Vermel" <avermel at mail.ru>
Cc: <mercurial-devel at selenic.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: hg diff/status <dir> problem


> Hello Andrei,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that but there seems to be more to it 
> than that.
> 
> I see this problem when I do:
> 
> E:\>hg init test
> E:\>cd test
> E:\test>mkdir foo
> E:\test>echo 123 > foo\bar
> E:\test>hg add .
> adding foo\bar
> E:\test>hg commit -m "Initial commit."
> No username found, using ...
> E:\test>echo 456 > foo\bar
> E:\test>hg status
> M foo\bar
> E:\test>hg status foo\bar
> M foo\bar
> E:\test>hg status foo
> 
> Here hg status sees the change when I give it no directory argument, or 
> when I point it at the exact file, but if I point it at the directory 
> containing the changed file it doesn't notice the change at all.
> 
> If I cd into the directory with the changed file in it and do hg stat, 
> it does see the file. I verified with both cmd, bash, and the windows 
> explorer that all files and directories involved here are lower case, 
> and all commands use only lower case arguments.
> 
> Andrei Vermel wrote:
>> Check that the case of your paths is correct.
>> This involves both the path you type and the current work dir.
>> If you do 'cd repo\SuBdIr', then windows will think you are really in
>> SuBdIr, regardless of the actual case of the subdir on disk,
>> and will deceive hg. This was driving me nuts for a while, until I got
>> careful about it, and had no such problems since then.
>> 
>> Interestingly enough, on another windows box I got also with XP sp2 ,
>> the cmd console will always cd to the proper case of subdir.
>> No idea what is different, could be some registry setting.
>> 
>> Andrei
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny Stenback" <jst at jstenback.com>
>> To: <mercurial-devel at selenic.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:05 AM
>> Subject: hg diff/status <dir> problem
>> 
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I recently realized that the windows version of hg (0.9.3) doesn't 
>>> appear to find changes to files in a repository when given a directory 
>>> to look in. I.e. if I set up a trivial repository with a file inside a 
>>> sub directory and change that file, then "hg status" shows the change, 
>>> as does "hg status somedir/somefile", but "hg status somedir" does 
>>> *not* show the change. Same goes for hg diff, hg commit, and maybe 
>>> other commands as well.
>>>
>>> I only see this on windows, hg on linux appears to work fine. This 
>>> appears to have worked in version 0.9.1, but I haven't verified that 
>>> myself.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas about this?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> jst
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>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> jst
>