For a short time I had the evolve extension enabled in our Mercurial repository. Then I disabled it.
Now I frequently see messages like:
obsolete feature not enabled but 184 markers found!
when various hg commands are run.
How can I get rid of this message? I gather there are "obsolecense markers" in the repository now, is it possible to remove them and/or silence these messages?
You just need to delete the obsstore:
$ rm .hg/store/obsstore
Note that if you do this the obsolete commits you've made will show up once again as either draft or public changes.
A comment noted that:
the cleaner solution would be to try to clone the repo again.
(jadelord Jan 3 '19 at 10:48)
The potential benefit of this approach (instead of deleting obsstore) would be:
Uses normal built in commands
Gets rid of obsolete changesets which would otherwise remain in history, potentially causing clutter or confusion.
According to the EVOLVE: USER GUIDE:
...obsolete [changesets] won’t be exchanged with other repositories by
push,pull, orclone.
which seems to support this approach. I have not yet had an opportunity to try it out.
In other words, the steps should be:
hgrc to turn of evolvehg clone source destdest should be free of any obsolete changesets (and probably also won't have an obsstore file)