We are just beginning to learn and evaluate Mercurial, due to an increasing number of nightmare merges, and various other problems we’ve had with SVN lately.
A client wants us to pull down a live copy of their site, do some SEO work on it, and push it back to them. They have no source control at all. I figure this is a great project to work on with Mercurial. Instead of putting it into our SVN and exporting when we are done, we’ll use Mercurial… But right away it seems I have some problem 🙂
They have a file called ---.config which seems to cause our Mercurial to barf. It just can’t commit that file. I’ve created the repo and committed everything else, but I just can’t get this one file committed.
We are running on Windows 2008 x64 with TortoiseHG 1.0.
I suppose I could ignore the file since it is unlikely we’ll need to work with it, but still – I’d like to learn how to use Mercurial a bit better. Is there a way around this?
EDIT: here is the error message:
('commit', GetoptError('option ---.config not recognized', '-.config'))
This happens when I hit the “commit” button in TortoiseHG with that file selected.
The problem is that TortoiseHg did not escape filenames correctly when calling
hg. When a filename starts with--, one must take extra care when using it on command lines.I have just sent a patch which will hopefully make it into TortoiseHg 1.0.1, which is scheduled to be released later today.