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Asked: 2026-05-25T05:55:30+00:00

I’m working on my thesis and storing changes in mercurial. I’m not getting an

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I’m working on my thesis and storing changes in mercurial. I’m not getting an error that I’ve got multiple heads, which I’m confused about — I’ve only got one working repository which I push occasionally to bitbucket. Here’s what happened:

$ hg commit -m "Fixing up..."
abort: No such file or directory: /Users/me/Dropbox/thesis/thesis_tex/simple.pdf
$ hg commit -m "Adding in page headers"
created new head

…one more commit, not having realized that having created a new head was a problem…

$ hg push
pushing to ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/...
searching for changes
abort: push creates new remote heads!
(did you forget to merge? use push -f to force)

$ hg heads
changeset:   26:3823a395b1ce
tag:         tip
user:        me
date:        Fri Aug 26 09:39:45 2011 -0400
summary:     Adding...

changeset:   24:c7c6517d4281
user:        me
date:        Thu Aug 25 16:34:42 2011 -0400
summary:     Fixing up...

How can I easily get rid of the other head, without messing up my working directory? Why did a second head get created? Is there a problem with keeping mercurial repositories in dropbox folders?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How can I easily get rid of the other head, without messing up my working directory?

    Merge the branches with hg merge.

    Is there a problem with keeping mercurial repositories in dropbox folders?

    This seems redundant to me, since Dropbox keeps a 30-day history on your files. I’d choose either Hg+Bitbucket (or whatever Mercurial hosting) or Dropbox, but not both.

    Edit: Why not use Mercurial and Dropbox? Here’s why.

    Ben Hughes said it well:

    By keeping your Mercurial repo on Dropbox you’re version controlling your version control system files. If you somehow manage to cause a conflict with files in your .hg directory, things could get messy. Recoverable, but messy.

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