abort: repository default not found!

[Peter Teoh]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> On 25.04.2008 09:38, Peter Teoh wrote:
>  > A resend, please help......
>  >
>  > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> After I copy my entire directory tree to another directory, and then
>  >>  attempted a "hg pull", I got the following output:
>  >>
>  >>  abort: repository default not found!
>
>  Inside the .hg dir is a file hgrc which contains some path aliases.
>  Path "default" seems to be defunct in your case.
>
>  The default path in hgrc is set as a side effect of hg clone.
>
>  The default path is used if you execute "hg pull" without saying
>  from where you want to pull. See "hg help pull".
>
>
>  >>
>  >>  Question is:   it is definitely ok that I can move my directory
>  >>  around, right?
>
>  Yes. It is ok to copy the repository directory with normal
>  file system commands (for example using "cp -R" on FreeBSD).
>
>  But you should make sure that no hg process is writing to your
>  repository during the copying process. If you can't guarantee that,
>  then you should do a "hg clone" to a backup repo and copy that.
>
>  To verify that a repository is consistent and fine, use "hg verify".
>
>

Thank you very much Adrian.   I managed to see another older copy of
the repository, copied the hgrc, and did a "hg pull", and "hg update"
all was fine.

Good to know this hg verify, as I can then verify that everything is
correct.   I also did a "hg tags" and both are showing identical
listing, which was not before copying the hgrc.   I have never touch
this hgrc, and yet it disappeared.

Thanks!!


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Regards,
Peter Teoh