False integrity errors?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jul 29 12:08:55 CDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 18:37 +0200, Guy Brand wrote:
> > 
> > $ hg cat -r 2 Makefile | wc
> 
> bug ~/rbt# hg cat -r 2 Makefile | wc
>       46     103     863
> 
> Numbers are the same with revision 6751 and 6752.
> 
> > If this is a long-lived repo, you can try a clone --pull and see if the
> > clone verifies cleanly.
> 
> If I clone the repo, the problem vanishes and wc output differs:
> 
> bug /tmp/rbt# hg cat -r 2 Makefile | wc
>       46      97     814

How mysterious. I suspect if you diff those two files, enlightenment
will follow. I further suspect it will start with a 'k'.

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