[New-bugs-announce] [issue16930] mention limitations and/or alternatives to hg graft

[Chris Jerdonek]

New submission from Chris Jerdonek:

In various places, the devguide recommends `hg graft`, but it appears it might not be possible to use on some systems or in certain situations.  For example, when I tried grafting a trivial change from 2.7 to 3.2 on Mac OS X, I got the following fatal error:

$ hg graft 2.7
grafting revision 81391
abort: case-folding collision between Lib/ConfigParser.py and Lib/configparser.py

Here is some related information: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FixingCaseCollisions

At the least, we might want to add a note saying that `hg graft` may not work on certain systems (and name those systems).

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components: Devguide
messages: 179650
nosy: chris.jerdonek, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: mention limitations and/or alternatives to hg graft

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