[Fwd: A new user experience]

[Kevin Smith]

The following message was posted to the mercurial list, regarding an 
unpleasant initial experience with mercurial. I figured it wouldn't hurt 
to post it here to be assured that bzr doesn't currently have any 
"features" like this, and to help all the coders remember to avoid 
anything like this in the future.

I would experiment with this in bzr myself, but alas, I can't run bzr 
any more. Apparently it now requires breezy, and I'm timidly sticking 
with hoary for a few more weeks because I can't afford to risk any 
downtime on this machine right now.

Kevin


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: A new user experience
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:15:12 +0100
From: Dan Lewis <actiondan at gmail.com>
To: mercurial at selenic.com

Hello all,

I'm new to mercurial, so I just thought I'd share a new user experience
with you. I tried an initial commit of a project I started today, using
version 0.7. Following the advice of the QuickStart wiki page, I typed
the following commands:

    hg init
    hg addremove
    hg status

There were a number of unwanted files shown as added (object files
etc...), due to not setting up the .hgignore file properly. Guessing
from the list of commands how to get back to the state before the
addremove, I bravely typed:

    hg revert

...and promptly wiped out the day's work. Don't get me wrong - I'm not
aiming to kick anybody but myself for this mistake (which I did, several
times), but I thought you may find the story useful. Should revert be
this destructive? Should there have been a warning? Should I have read
the effing manual (ok... don't answer that one).

I'm going to persevere, just with a little more caution.

Regards,
Dan.

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