Problems with committing a single file - grabs everything

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:36 -0800, Hazlett, Susan G. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Mackall [mailto:mpm at selenic.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:28 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 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)?
>  [Hazlett, Susan G.] 
> 
> No subrepos, single parent.
> 
> % hg summary
> parent: 1417:6857128369aa tip
>  Fix error in comment.
> branch: default
> commit: 3 modified, 5 unknown
> update: (current)
> % hg parents
> changeset:   1417:6857128369aa
> tag:         tip
> user:        <removed email SGH>
> date:        Thu Jan 06 10:49:36 2011 -0800
> summary:     Fix error in comment.
> 
> % hg --version
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.5.2)

Hmm, that's a bit old, but I don't know of any bugs in this area.
Is this easily reproducible on the machine in question? Do all files
show up in the "HG:" lines in the commit editor?

There's not much we can do for here at this point if we can't reproduce
it; you might be able to dig deeper with --debug, or even --debugger, or
by instrumenting the code with some print statements. The interesting
bits are in localrepo.py:commit.

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