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Bugum Burum
Bugum Burum

Reputation: 171

hg push fails with error code 255 and error message file exists

I'm trying to push some changes in mercurial that involve pushing a new branch but I get this output:

searching for changes

adding changesets

adding manifests

adding file changes

transaction abort!

rollback completed

abort: file exists

I'm using Mercurial 1.9.2 with sub repos the command I'm using is hg push --new-branch. I also tried -f, nothing seems to work. I'm pushing from Linux machine (ununtu 10.4) to Windows machine. The Windows is mounted using cifs mount...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2630

Answers (2)

Bugum Burum
Bugum Burum

Reputation: 171

I have found the answer, it appears that some files attributes have been change. changing them back to default solved the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Christian Specht
Christian Specht

Reputation: 36421

What kind of remote repository are you pushing to?

I had a similar problem (but with a different error message, though) when pushing from a Windows machine to a network share on my NAS at home, which runs on Linux:
Can you 'push' to network share using Mercurial on 64bit Windows 7?

Pushing from a Windows machine to a network share on a Windows machine works (we are doing this at work), even though pushing to network shares is not recommended by the Mercurial team.

Quote from the "shared disk" part at "Publishing Repositories" in the Mercurial wiki.

generally restricted to intranets, not generally recommended due to general issues with network filesystem reliability

Upvotes: 0

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