[petsc-dev] I hate Mecurial

[Sean Farley]

>
> 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?


They did fix some of this in mercurial 1.9:

$ hg ci
nothing changed (1 missing files, see 'hg status')  <- hg 1.9 or later
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