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I’m attempting to do development on a home Linux server, and I can’t get a simple use-case to work.  Let me explain the scenario.

I have two directories, one in /var/www/codeigniter which is a clone of the BitBucket repo.  The other directory, ~/wip/codeigniter is a clone of the repo at /var/www/codeigniter.  What I want to do is simple, edit the welcome_message.php file in the working directory and push it to /var/www/codeigniter repo, but I’m having troubles doing it.

After I edit the file in the wip directory, I commit it.  Then, I do hg push and it pushes it to the correct directory (/var/www/codeigniter).  It even indicates that there is one change in one file… all of that seems to be correct.  However, when I actually LOOK at the welcome_message.php file in /var/www/codeigniter, it hasn’t changed.  I look at the change log in that repo, and it indicates that is HAS changed, and yet the reality is that it hasnt.

I thought originally it might be a permissions problem, so I changed /var/www/codeigniter and all of its sub-directories to 777 to see if that would at least get my changes to take effect, and it did not work. 

I’m new to Merc and my Linux-fu hasn’t been used in a while, so I’m kind of stumped as to whats going on.  Anyone have any ideas?

Are you remembering to run “hg update” on your /var/www/codeigniter repo? That could be it.

Jamie

That was the problem, I haven’t even seen that I had to do that anywhere.  Looks like I have some more reading to do.  Thanks.

I’m reading http://hginit.com and I just finished the second part (working with a team).  Is there any reason to update the working directory on the central repo, or can I leave it where it is?  It seems like I’m always going to be pulling / cloning the most recent changeset even if it isn’t the current working directory.  Or am I wrong about that?

Unless someone is actively working on the centralized repository, i.e. using it for a working directory, then it never needs to update, etc.

Edited to add: also if you have not yet discovered the Fetch extension, I highly recommend it.