[Python-checkins] CANNOT Patch 3.x NEWS [was cpython (2.7): Issue #14707: add news entry\

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Bottom line: I decided to restart from scratch. I am still not sure if the
> glitch was hg, disk 1, disk 2, or Windows, or some combination.
>
> After making and posting a patch to the tracker today, I tried to annotate a
> file and got an error something like 'cannot find revision -1'. I then
> noticed that there was no dag in the workbench dag window, as if there were
> no revisions. When I looked in .hg/store, the big file seemed to be missing.
> So I wiped, defragmented and compacted, and reloaded TortoiseHg. Tomorrow I
> will re-clone and share the repository. Since this is the second time I have
> re-cloned from python.org, I will follow the advice I read somewhere to make
> a _backup clone that I leave alone until I need it, so I only have to pull
> from now until then when I do.

I still keep a pristine clone around so "nuke it from orbit" remains
an option. "hg histedit" lets me deal with most of my screw-ups these
days, though.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia