[PATCH stable] share: be more explicit about the dangers of rollback
Greg Ward
greg-hg at gerg.ca
Wed Jan 13 21:05:40 CST 2010
# HG changeset patch
# User Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca>
# Date 1263438306 18000
# Branch stable
# Node ID db5395311c84ecbbe994973c511a3aa57fdd08d6
# Parent cd3e5c47d6631dc5eccaa5ee043ef1905ded8c8b
share: be more explicit about the dangers of rollback.
diff --git a/hgext/share.py b/hgext/share.py
--- a/hgext/share.py
+++ b/hgext/share.py
@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@
Initialize a new repository and working directory that shares its
history with another repository.
- NOTE: actions that change history such as rollback or moving the
- source may confuse sharers.
+ NOTE: using rollback or extensions that destroy/modify history
+ (MQ, rebase, etc.) can cause considerable confusion with shared
+ clones. In particular, if two shared clones are both updated to the
+ same changeset, and one of them destroys that changeset with
+ rollback, the other clone will suddenly stop working: all
+ operations will fail with \"abort: working directory has unknown
+ parent\". The only known workaround is to use debugsetparents
+ on the broken clone to reset it to a changeset that still exists
+ (e.g. tip).
"""
return hg.share(ui, source, dest, not noupdate)
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