stale journal.dirstate !!

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:28 -0800, Sreedhar Govardhana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I came across a situation that 'push' is failing due to a stale 
> 'journal.dirstate' file.  'verify'
> doesn't show any issues and so is 'recover'.  I manually removed the 
> file and did a push
> from my child it went fine. But I am not sure about the consequences of 
> this manual deletion.
> Is it going to be a problem ?

Manually removed the file? It should have to you to run recover and
recover should have cleaned up for you.

> Also, Can one of you please explain me, what are all the situations when 
> journal.dirstate will
> not removed ? And what might happened in our case ?

It happens when the hg process gets killed in the middle of a
transaction without getting a chance to roll it back. Running recover
should fix it.

This might happen if your webserver decides hg is taking too long or
your system crashes, etc.

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