Problems with committing a single file - grabs everything

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Jan 6 16:27:45 CST 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:35 -0800, Hazlett, Susan G. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Mackall [mailto:mpm at selenic.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:08 PM
> > To: Hazlett, Susan G.
> > Cc: mercurial at selenic.com
> > Subject: Re: Problems with committing a single file - grabs everything
> > 
> > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 11:34 -0800, Hazlett, Susan G. wrote:
> > > When he looked at the commit, it took *all* the files rather than just
> > > config.suggest.  We rolledback, tried it again and this time, the
> > > commit took only the config.suggest as he had originally wanted.
> > > Thinking it an anomaly, we moved on, but 5 minutes later he came back
> > > and was able to reproduce the problem.
> > 
> > That's odd. Perhaps there's something interesting hiding in:
> > 
> > hg showconfig --debug
> 
> [Hazlett, Susan G.] 
> I'm including output from both environments.  The first is from where the problem occurred, the second is mine where I could not reproduce.  (I've removed only the username line from both to avoid publishing the email).

Hmm, nothing obvious there. What versions are you using? Are you using
subrepos? Does the working directory have two parents (hg parents or hg
summary)?

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