Mercurial wipes repository history!?

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 09:59:38 CDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Jon Ribbens
<jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, then sorry. We were commenting your first mail with the example
log you wrote at the top.
If it was *not* a fresh clone, then please try to give us more
information. What you told is not enough to understand what you did.

Cheers,

Benoit


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