Reverting a deleted file overwrites any current contents of the file w/o confirmation or backup

[Klaas van Schelven]

The subject says it all

Given that I just had to reproduce my work to much chagrin I might not be
in the best position to judge whether this is a bug or a feature.
Hope the bug description is helpful.

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hg init experiment
cd experiment/

echo 'old stuff' > importantfile
hg add importantfile
hg ci -m "baseline"

# real test starts below this line.

hg rm importantfile

echo "your full day's work" > importantfile

hg revert importantfile

ls
cat importantfile

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I'm on mercurial 1.4.3

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I think this is very un-mercurial-like behavior: I'm always quite confident
that revert gives me .orig files. I've lost some of that confidence today.

My particular scenario was:

1] cut up a big test file into various parts, throwing away (also in hg)
the original file
2] change of mind, open the file in the editor again, rewrite it completely.
3] tests don't run for some reason. whatever, I'll just revert with --all,
and move .orig files back one by one to figure out what the difference is.
4] !!! where's my days' work?

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Klaas van Schelven
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