unhandled win32 exception in [hg update] = 2884

[Martin Geisler]

"Zorba" <cr at altmore.co.uk> writes:

Hi Zorba,

> is the advice likely to be "re-install the latest version and cross
> your fingers" ?
>
> I can see how this might work actually, if Visual Studio update has
> over-written DLLs that Hg relied on, re-installing will revert them
> back I guess...
>
> If reinstalling I would prefer to be installing TortoiseHg 0.6 (with
> Mercurial 1.1.2), as I would like to try Tortoise.

I don't know why you're getting the Microsoft Visual Studio error, but I
would try installing TortoiseHg.

> Repo compatibility between v1.1.1 and v1.1.2 won't be a problem will
> it ? (it was 1.0.2 the new format came in as I recall ?)

The fncache repository format came in 1.1. You can check here:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UpgradeNotes
  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/fncacheRepoFormat

This change wont do anything to your existing clones -- repositories are
not "upgraded" automatically and old versions of Mercurial will continue
to understand them.

If you make a new repository, old versions of Mercurial wont be able to
read it directly from a local disk. They will still be able to read it
if served over HTTP.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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