Confused about status

Robin Farine robin.farine at terminus.org
Wed Aug 24 08:52:35 CDT 2005


On 2005-08-24 15:27, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hg status optfilt9.py
> M optfilt9.py
>
> OK, it's modified, so what's new?
> hg diff optfilt9.py
> [nothing]
>
> What does this mean?

Perhaps you have the following script in your path under the name 
'hg'?

#! /bin/sh

if test "$1" = "status"; then
    echo "M $2"
else
    echo "[nothing]"
fi


More seriously, it could mean that the execute permissions have 
changed but not the content?

Robin


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