Mercurial wipes repository history!?

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Thu Apr 8 08:33:35 CDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:16, Jon Ribbens
<jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> Is it just me, or is this very, very bad?

I wouldn't say it's very, very bad, but it's certainly a UI WTF.

> You may well say why am I rolling back immediately after a clone, but
> (a) it still shouldn't wipe the repository and (b) the above is just
> an attempt to replicate a wipe that happened under more complicated
> circumstances involving a rollback after a "pull -u" with a dirty
> working directory.

It didn't kill your working dir changes, though, did it? *That* would
be very, very bad.

> Also the behaviour is different if the parent
> repository is local not remote - the rollback just says it has no
> rollback info and does nothing.

Yeah, crummy.

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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