cg-seek messed me up
- From
- Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>
- Date
- May 31, 2005, 14:33 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20050531143318.GB27047@tumblerings.org>
Hi folks,
I'm not positive, but I *think* I shot myself in the foot by doing a cg-seek when there were uncommitted changes in my working file set. The patching process created duplicate areas in the files, while losing other areas and giving patch rejects. Before I figured out the problem, I wasn't even able to seek to a known state because of this, so I ended up having to recreate the files as best as I could from the mess I was left with in the working directory. I realize I could have gotten a clean tree by cloning, but this didn't occur to me at the time. It seemed like the whole repository was just corrupt.
I think I recovered everything, and I know it was my own mistake, but it seems like this will be a common blunder by users. Maybe cg-seek should first do a comparison between the working tree and the most recent known state. If the two differ, it should exit with an error.
Be well, Zack
-- Zack Brown