>>>>> "Rich" == Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> writes:
Mike> I just filed issue 576 against Mercurial for this. AFAICT, the only Mike> issue is the scary warning message when the child is updated. Can Mike> you clarify what you meant by "a scarier (but apparently ignored) Mike> dirstate"? Rich> In my experience (and that of another opensolaris person) the Rich> dirstate represents the not-really-versioned files from that Rich> directory as 'modified', when clearly they should be unversioned. Rich> It's not clear to me whether if committed, they would become Rich> versioned. Rich> That aspect is why I consider it a stopper (or close to it), Rich> webrev will show .make.state's for instance, and, as I said, it's Rich> possible commit would cause them to be versioned. At least with my trivial test case, that doesn't seem to be a problem. "hg stat" shows no changed files, "hg manifest" only shows the file that was already versioned, and "hg commit" says "nothing changed". mike
