将文件与最后的Mercurial变更集进行比较，是否应该有所不同？

Question

I'm seeing something I don't expect in my Mercurial repo. A change that has been made in a branch is showing up in default. There is no changeset in the log, merge or otherwise, accounting for the change moving into default from the branch.

I checked the basics: I'm in default, did an 'hg pull', 'hg update -C', 'hg purge', and an 'hg st' which came back clean.

If I look at the file locally the change I am expecting is not there. If I do an 'hg diff -r ' then it tells me that my local file is missing the change I expect to see. The file does not show as modified in 'hg st' and a simple 'hg diff' on it shows no differences.

I would expect that whenever doing a diff with an unmodified file explicity against the last changeset in whatever branch I'm in with '-r' it should come back with no differences. Am I wrong? Am I misunderstanding this basic concept?

Thanks, Scott

Answer 1

I think hg has an internal cache of which files it thinks are modified, and somehow this has got out of sync. This happened to me before, but I can't remember whether I deleted the file first or just used hg revert.