Make hg update more verbose by default (issue12) (including small changes to revert and backout to not show these stats with the exception of backout --merge) Show update stats (unless -q), e.g.: K files updated, L files merged, M files removed, N files unresolved Inform the user what to do after a merge: (branch merge, don't forget to commit) Inform the user what to do if a branch merge failed: There are unresolved merges, you can redo the full merge using: hg update -C X hg merge Y Inform the user what to do if a working directory merge failed: There are unresolved merges with locally modified files.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "first" -d "1000000 0" a
mkdir sub
echo 321 > sub/b
hg add sub/b
hg commit -m "second" -d "1000000 0" sub/b
cat sub/b
hg co 0
cat sub/b 2>/dev/null || echo "sub/b not present"
ls sub 2>/dev/null || echo "sub not present"

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