Mercurial wipes repository history!?

Jon Ribbens jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk
Thu Apr 8 09:57:10 CDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:48:03PM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > Losing repositories is a far *worse* bug, if that's indeed what
> > happened.
> 
> No, it's not, because we don't "lose" repositories unless they're
> fresh clones.
> 
> I suggest you read some docs on rollback or try different scenarios in
> a test repository to get a feel for what it actually does, because it
> doesn't look like you're getting it yet (even though Benoit and I have
> explained it several times in this thread).

No, you're not getting it, despite me explaining it several times.
The scenario we were investigating was that the rollback *did*
lose a respository that was not a fresh clone.


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