<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And why can't Mecurial tell me this when it refuses to work? It knows this is exactly why it is halting, why not tell the user exactly this?</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>They did fix some of this in mercurial 1.9:</div><div><br></div><div>$ hg ci</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">nothing changed (1 missing files, see 'hg status') <- hg 1.9 or later</span></div>
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