Another "hg diff" annoyance

[Greg Lindahl]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:28:10AM +0000, TK Soh wrote:

> > Chatting with my other hg users, it seems that this particular error
> > (removing a file without hg rm, then getting stuck with "uncommitted
> 
> Do I understand correctly that you want hg to treat the missing file as removed?

No, I want to make it easier for the user to go from the message
"abort: uncommitted changes" to discovering that they have a missing
file.

> > changes") has happened several times to other people, and they've
> > ended up recloning their repos to fix it.
> 
> I'm missing the picture. Why is recloning needed here?

Because they couldn't figure out what the uncommitted change was...
they couldn't commit anymore. And they destroyed their repo and
started over.

Now you might find this amusing. But that's how we find usability
problems.

-- greg