Another "hg diff" annoyance

[TK Soh]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Greg Lindahl <greg at blekko.com> wrote:
> 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.

The message does seem a little to simplistic for me too. It's not the
only one that can use some improvement.

>> > 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.

Not at all. At least I am not laughing :-)

> -- greg
>
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