Question

I removed some database files from my project using the search function in Explorer. After that Mercurial complains that it cannot find the files an refuses to commit. I tried using the shelve tool, but I run then in a bugreport for version 2.5 of TortoiseHG stating that the node holding the database file could not be found.
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How do I solve this?

Answer 1

It it possible you deleted not only the files in your working directory but also down in the data store itself (.hg/....)? It’s possible to do that if you search indelicately in explorer. Here’s the command line equivalent:

ry4an@four:~/projects/unblog$ find . -name '*.xml*'
./static/attachments/2005-09-22-isle-royale.gpx.xml
./.hg/store/data/static/attachments/2005-09-22-isle-royale.gpx.xml.i

It is entirely safe and okay for me to delete that .gpx.xml file, but if I deleted every file with .gpx.xml in the name then I’d be deleting the file from the store and corrupting my repository.

Try running hg verify in the repository and see what output you get.