Package: mercurial Version: 1.0.1-5.1 Severity: important Justification: leaves repository in unuseable state Tags: upstream Forwarded: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue1152
Hi, To work with the mq extension it is essential that "git mode" is enabled for diff: $ cat ~/.hgrc [diff] git=True Otherwise, mq fails to track renames of files, crashes badly on "hg qrefresh" and leaves the repository in an unuseable state. Example output is on <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue1152> (not by me.) The issue is closed in the mercurial bts, but without digging the patch out of mercurial's hg I didn't see how they closed it or in which version. It certainly hit me with 1.0.1-5.1. Giving an error if diffs git mode is not enabled would be accectable not not ideal. Always enabling git mode would be easy. Always enabling the git mode inside mq would probably be the ideal (and invisible to the user) fix. Leaving the directory in unuseable state is certainly not acceptable. (I wondered if this should be RC, but I figured mq is "just" an extension, so ...) cheers & thanks -- vbi -- Or is it?
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