[petsc-dev] I hate Mecurial

[Barry Smith]

On Oct 8, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Dmitry Karpeev wrote:

> It looks like a missing file.
> ! proposal/.#bios.tex
> Was it added to the repo by mistake and then removed with a plain 'rm'?

   Hurrah, Dmitry got it right! 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?

   Let's change all PETSc error messages to "Either you made a mistake or a PETSc developer made a mistake", this would make PETSc much better to work with since we'd only need on error message.


   Barry

> 
> Dmitry.
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 8, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
> 
> > What the fuck? Why cannot it not provide some useful information on what I need to do??????  This absolutely sucks!!!!
> >
> > "abort: outstanding uncommitted changes"
> >
> > First, you need to update mercurial to 1.9.3. Then try and see if that works better. Alternatively, you can try the shelve or attic extensions:
> 
>   The first answer out of Sean's mouth whenever something goes wrong with Mecurial is shelve/attic, why am I not surprised.
> 
>   Now I ignore the answer because I actually have no uncommitted changes and don't want to shelve or attic anything.
> 
>   Now I wait for next knee-jerk response from Mecurial lovers/haters. Knowing again it is likely unhelpful.
> 
>   Barry
> 
> >
> > $ hg pull
> > $ hg merge
> > abort: outstanding uncommitted changes
> > $ hg shelve
> > $ hg st
> > $ hg merge
> > $ hg ci
> > $ hg unshelve
> >
> > or something like that. Depending if you install shelve or attic will change the commands slightly.
> 
>