Bugs item #1879567, was opened at 2008-01-25 05:31
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Status: Open
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Priority: 2
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Submitted By: Peer Sommerlund (peso)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Clone to empty folder fails

Initial Comment:
Version: 0.2

If an existing empty folder "foo" is specified as destination the clone fails 
with message "*** destination 'C:\foo' already exists"

Workaround is to delete folder before cloning.

I would have expected an error if I tried to clone to an existing repository, 
but not to an empty folder.

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Comment By: Doug Philips (dgou)
Date: 2008-04-13 09:16

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This is really annoying because the GUI interface "browse" has a "new
folder button" that encourages the user to say: "Oh, I see, I have to make
the new folder that I want to clone into so that -I can --select-- it-.

I struggled with this for 10 frustrating minutes before I finally realized
that I had to NOT make the new folder name.
Instead I had to:
 select the parent
 click into the destination box
 type in the new folder name at the end of the path.

That combined with --lack-- of defaulting the source to the folder on
which I used the "create clone" menu/context-menu option to start with made
this a triply frustrating experience. 

Claiming that the underlying command line interface works differently
doesn't hold much water. My coworkers will bitch up a storm because that is
not how other Windows GUIs treat the "New Folder" options when creating and
saving files, etc.

Can we get the selected folder to be the default source (if it is a repo
or subdirectory of one) for 0.4?


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-01-25 11:01

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It's a behavior of hg clone. I don't feel it's safe to assume it's okay to
overwrite an existing directory. Empty or otherwise.

-TK

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