Stripping hidden changesets breaks "hg outgoing"
Aurélien Campéas
aurelien.campeas at logilab.fr
Tue Feb 5 09:14:15 CST 2013
Le 05/02/2013 15:49, Greg Ward a écrit :
> Hi all --
>
> I've been using evolve instead of MQ pretty happily for a couple of
> weeks now. Of course I didn't find any bugs during the 2.5 feature
> freeze. ;-) But I did accrue a lot of hidden changesets that I don't
> care about anymore; the history in question has settled down and been
> published. So I thought I would clean up a bit.
>
> With a bit of head-scratching, I figured out how to list only hidden
> changesets:
>
> hg log --hidden -r 'hidden()'
>
> (File that under "not obvious"!)
>
> So I decided to strip some of the oldest hidden changesets:
>
> $ hg strip 311 --hidden
> saved backup bundle to /home/greg/src/fubsy/.hg/strip-backup/967ddf2d89b6-backup.hg
> $ hg strip 311 --hidden
> saved backup bundle to /home/greg/src/fubsy/.hg/strip-backup/db3731d77cf1-backup.hg
> $ hg strip 311 --hidden
> saved backup bundle to /home/greg/src/fubsy/.hg/strip-backup/971c100522a8-backup.hg
>
> All fine so far. Then I wanted to make sure I hadn't screwed up and
> stripped any valuable changesets:
>
> $ hg in
> comparing with ssh://hg.gerg.ca//home/hg/fubsy/
> searching for changes
> no changes found
>
> Good. And because I'm paranoid:
>
> $ hg out
> comparing with ssh://hg.gerg.ca//home/hg/fubsy/
> searching for changes
> abort: unknown revision 'ce0a27dd3d06ea138f2a45568fd51d0d0a44f9a2'!
can you try:
hg out --hidden
?
It may be a known bug Pierre-Yves told me about not long ago, for which
the --hidden flag may be a workaround.
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