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brownbetty ([personal profile] brownbetty) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev_training2009-04-19 11:02 am
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Nuclear option

So, having finally figured out Mercurial, at least, enough to realize everything I was doing wrong, I would like to nuke my hack's disfigured copy of the code and start again clean. (It's not really necessary to carefully swap out patches that I made by accident, and reapply them every update. In fact, I'd really rather not.)

It seemed like the nice and simple way to do this was
$hg update -C tip
, but when I tried that, I got
abort: 00changelog.i: no node 949b5cec2d2896f33952d57abcc52696717c90c8!
which is MAGNIFICENTLY uninformative.

Is there a way to fix that? Alternately, am I doing completely the wrong thing?