Mercurial wipes repository history!?

Jon Ribbens jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk
Thu Apr 8 10:09:46 CDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:58:04PM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 16:57, Jon Ribbens
> <jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Okay, can you demonstrate that using a transcript?

Unfortunately not at the moment (otherwise I would already have done
so!) It was a colleague and precisely what they did is not 100% clear,
but it definitely involved a repository that was not a recent clone,
and it definitely involved the repository being wiped. If I manage
to replicate it, I will certainly report back here.


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