Your favorite bug

[Douglas Philips]

On 2009 Feb 12, at 5:20 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

> Since the feature freeze is in two days and the bug fest in three
> days, I wanted to put this out there: why don't you all let us know
> about your favorite pet bugs/issues? Name one or two or three issues
> that may or may not be in the issue tracker (if it isn't, please add
> it now), and we can see about getting it into 1.2.

This was from nearly a year ago:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue706

As the comment says, there are still issues.
For whatever reasons, messages from the notify hook make it back to  
the client, but messages when a pre-transaction changeset hook fails  
do not.

> Things that increase the chance of your bug getting fixed:
>
> - Supplying a reproducible bug report (in the form of a shell script,
> or a test script)

Use any of the netbeans hooks, forbid2head is a real easy one.

> - Locating some old patch that goes some way toward solving it
> - Actually writing (part of) the required patch


Early last summer I took several shots at trying to fix it, but had no  
success.

It is really annoying to have to explain to developers how our stable  
repo is protected by several very important hooks, and if you violate  
one, well, you'll just get a generic error with no clue what you did  
wrong, and don't worry about that scary looking error the server and/ 
or repo aren't damaged/broken, that's just the error transmission  
mechanism.

If I had a fix for it, I'd've already submitted it. I'm hoping someone  
else has one that they forgot to send, or that something has changed  
in the past 6-9 months to make a fix easier...

--Doug