purge: abort with missing files avoiding problems with name-mangling fs In a name mangling filesystem (e.g. a case insensitive one) dirstate.walk() can yield filenames different from the ones stored in the dirstate. This already confuses the status and add commands, but with purge this may cause data loss. To prevent this purge refuses to work if there are missing files and has a 'force' option if the user knows it is safe. Even with the force option purge checks if any of the missing files is still available in the working dir: if so there may be some problem with the underlying filesystem, so it unconditionally aborts.

#!/bin/sh

hg init a
cd a
touch empty1
hg add empty1
hg commit -m 'add empty1' -d '1000000 0'

touch empty2
hg add empty2
hg commit -m 'add empty2' -d '1000000 0'

hg up -C 0
touch empty3
hg add empty3
hg commit -m 'add empty3' -d '1000000 0'

hg heads

hg merge 1
# before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the 
# empty file that came from rev 1.
hg status
hg commit -m merge -d '1000000 0'
hg manifest --debug tip