[isabelle-dev] Repository Trouble

[Makarius]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Johannes Hölzl wrote:

> We had again a problem with the repository. We fixed it by using again
>
>  hg verify
>  hg strip <failing rev according to verify>
>
> now it works again (at least on my machine and on the web server)
>
> I used Mercurial 2.0.2 (installed with Ubuntu 12.04).
> I updated now to Mercurial 2.4 and hope that it does not happen again.

Since Jasmin reported push problems on the other thread, I did some 
peeking of the physical repository as well.  This reveals the following:

   -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoelzl isabelle 0 Nov 27 15:15 .hg/bookmarks

I vaguely remember that when the first breakdown happened this summer (due 
to a push by Alex Krauss) the very same odd file was left over, with owner 
krauss.

Bookmarks are a version of "branches" in Mercurial, but we don't use them 
in the Isabelle repository.  Do you use them locally for yourself?


 	Makarius