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James Picone
James Picone

Reputation: 1600

Mercurial error on commit: "abort: phases.new-commit: not a valid phase name ('')"

I'm getting the following error when attempting to commit to a Hg repository:

Z:\wormcard_maker>hg commit -m "asdf"
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: phases.new-commit: not a valid phase name ('')

This happens over multiple different repositories and has survived re-cloning the repository and reinstalling Mercurial. I can commit to the repository fine from a different computer (running Linux).

I'm running Hg 4.8 as distributed with TortoiseHg 4.8 on Windows 7.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1885

Answers (3)

StayOnTarget
StayOnTarget

Reputation: 13037

Neither of the other answers worked for me - even though I had new-commit = secret in the HGRC it still produced the error.

The workaround I found was to do this:

hg ci -m "message" --config phases.new-commit=secret

which did work, apparently by overriding whatever invalid phase name hg was trying to use. Even though I don't know why.

I assume this would work with other comments, not just ci (aka commit).

Upvotes: 0

StayOnTarget
StayOnTarget

Reputation: 13037

I tried using the THG setting but it didn't work; just kept producing the same error. (While doing this I noticed that the THG dropdown for the phase choices had a bunch of blank lines in it; so I think THG was confused.)

Instead I manually edited my HGRC file and made sure it contained:

[phases]
new-commit = secret

which worked.

You could obviously use draft, etc. in place of secret.

Upvotes: 0

Zabiyak
Zabiyak

Reputation: 86

In TortoiseHg just set the "File - Settings - Commit - New Commit Phase" option.

Upvotes: 7

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