RE: Unable to make changes using Mercurial

On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 6:27 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> Sorry, folks, but this bloody system is acting up again. I got the most
> recent (dated 5 november) version of the document, edited it, committed
> it, and tried to push it, and it tells me
> 
> hg push --new-branch default
> warning: dvcs.w3.org certificate with fingerprint
> 97:4c:0e:c5:2e:95:74:5e:c7:fa:ed:07:3f:97:ab:ea:80:7a:be:7c not
> verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting)
> abort: push creates new remote head 6f23bae8f64a!
> (did you forget to merge? use push -f to force)
> pushing to https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/
> searching for changes
> Completed with errors, see above
> 
> which makes NO BLOODY SENSE AT ALL. I don't even know if it worked or
> not.

It didn't


> If anyone there knows what I can do next, or if I even need to do
> anything else, please give me a hand here.

Probably you forgot to do a

hg pull
hg update

before you started changing the document. If you want, I can commit the
changes for you. Just mail me the HTML file.
 

> I swear, it would be easier to carve the documents in granite than use
> this infuriating process.

I think it would be a hell lot of fun to have a couple of beers with you one
day :-P


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Markus Lanthaler
@markuslanthaler

Received on Wednesday, 23 October 2013 17:46:24 UTC