Case folding collision in Mercurial (WinXP)

[Dan Craft]

>I'm not quite clear what you're trying to do, but you should be able to
>'manually revert' by either cloning your repo and copying files or using
>'hg cat'. Alternately, you can use hg diff to capture your changes,
>check out an old revision, then apply (most of) the diff.

Thanks, Matt.  A couple more answers will help me on my way.

Did you mean clone using 'hg clone'?  That aborts with the "case-folding collision".  What do I lose if I just copy the repository via filesys commands?  (Once I have this sandbox, I can just try stuff.)

The tricky piece seems it will be getting rid of the duplicate/incorrectly capitalized dirs under .hg/.  I'm presuming it would NOT be reasonable to just go in and remove those.  Given the changeset which introduced the corruption (on 5/23, rev 11) is the latest, I MAY be able to use 'hg rollback' to remove those dirs (assuming it doesn't abort).  That would look something like:
(1) logically clone the repository
    - copy the repository directory
    - remove any files in the workspace added since r11
    - 'hg revert' to r11 [at least] files modified since r11; (if it aborts; use 'hg cat' individually)
(2) 'hg rollback'; (if it aborts, ?)
(3) re-establish r11 with new commit
(4) copy from orig workspace files modified since r11

The 'hg diff' approach doesn't seem it would work for non-text files, but if 'hg revert' aborts might use it for the rest.

To get started, I need to know about cloning via copying (and am open to any other suggestion).

Thx.
--Dan
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