Mercurual doesn't see changes

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Igor Kostenko <isanych at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mercurial might miss some changes if: the modified content has the
>> same size as the old
>> content, and the change is done less than one second after the "hg
>> update" (update of the
>> dirstate).
>>
>> Could it be that?
> I don't know how it happened, I just have a copy of working directory
> with problem. But size of files is different 2967 bytes in repo and
> 3082 in working copy (and there are several such files in this case).
> And the same situation happened several times  in last two weeks. But
> previosly it was sync with cvs so developer just removed everything
> from working copy and get all files from cvs before I had a chance to
> look on problem, this time files was modified manually. When I just
> extract tar.bz2 on windows and linux I see:
> Linux - # hg status
> M defs/bin/setObjsDir.pl
> M defs/bin/setTopDir.pl
> M defs/bin/src2obj
> A .hgignore
> Windows - >hg status
> M Go\DataClient\GNUmakefile
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.agora.tbs
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.appl
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.c
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.ce
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.commondef
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.ecs
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.stl
> M defs\GNUdefs\makefile.threads
> A .hgignore

Using "hg debugstate" can help too.

regards,

Benoit