Checkin gives error "abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!" on TortoiseHg/Windows version

[Martin Geisler]

<jens.lund at nordea.com> writes:

>> From: Steve Borho [mailto:steve at borho.org] 
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:50 AM,  <jens.lund at nordea.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The problem below is still present in hg 1.4/TortoiseHg ver 0.9 :-(
>> > * Running with traceback:
>> > $ hg --traceback ci -m second
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 46, in _runcatch
>> >  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 441, in _dispatch
>> > RepoError: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)
>> > abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
>
>> That is quite strange. It's likely this will not be fixed until it
>> can be reproduced by an appropriate developer.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot post the two versions of the file in public.
> However, as stated in my original mail I can probably send them to a
> few selected developers if anybody shows interest.

I've Cc'ed a number of other Danish Mercurial developers and users, some
of which use Windows (at least in their day-job). I hope one of them can
try to reproduce the problem.

> So far, that has only been a fried om mine here in Denmark that
> happens to work at a company where they use Mercurial quite a lot.

Cool -- we have talked about meeting for a Mercurial-fun-hacking-day
somewhere in Copenhagen on December the 5th or 6th. Sune and Henrik
should know more about it.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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