confused about 'hg strip' results

[Christian Ebert]

* Johan Samyn on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 19:01:14 +0100
> Platform : Mercurial 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 9.04
> I was surprised about the result of the 'hg strip' command, as in the
> session hereafter :
> <clip>
> [prompt]> echo bbb > b
> [prompt]> hg add b
> [prompt]> hg ci -m "add b"
> [prompt]> hg log -l 3   # find revno to strip
> ...
> [prompt]> hg strip REV
> ...
> [prompt]> ls -la
> a
> c
> ...
> [prompt]> hg cifiles
> a
> b
> c
> ...
> [prompt]>
> </clip>
> 
> I understand the file is not back in the working tree, as that is the
> job of 'hg revert'.
> But then why does 'hg cifiles' still report it ?

Because it's a quick'n dirty extension? ;-)

$ file .hg/store/data/b.i

should probably report empty, and cifiles should check whether an
index file is empty.

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