Re: Quick mercurial question

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Robinson, Melvin D
<address@hidden> wrote:
> This should be enough to get the GUI branch:
>
> hg update gui
>
> Michael.
>
> I had tried that, but got this error:
> butterfly:octave melrobin$ hg update gui
> abort: crosses branches (merge branches or use --clean to discard changes)
>
> I don't know what this means.

This means you have local changes in your octave repository. You have
to discard your local changes (for instance using "hg revert") or use
"hg update --clean gui", which will also discard uncommited changes.

Michael.