Unable to merge in mercurial

Question

I am a newcomer to mercurial. I have recently set up a repository with 2 colleagues and am having difficulty with pushing my code. [I am using command-line hg in Windows]. In particular when I push I get a dialogue like the following:

>hg commit -u petermr

>hg push
pushing to http://bitbucket.org/petermr/polyinfo/
searching for changes
abort: push creates new remote heads!
(did you forget to merge? use push -f to force)
>hg merge
abort: there is nothing to merge

>hg status

I am afraid to commit using push -f as I think that will create multiple heads and cause problems for our group.

When I try to merge I get a dialogue something like:

>hg merge -f
merging src/test/resources/PMR/algorithm/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/algorithm/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/irregular/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/irregular/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/massChange/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/massChange/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y

Since there are several hundred files I cannot type "y" for each and I can't find a way of merging them all together.

UPDATE I have tried the first (2) answers and still have a problem:

>hg pull
pulling from http://bitbucket.org/petermr/polyinfo/
searching for changes
no changes found

>hg merge
abort: outstanding uncommitted merges

UPDATE in response to @tonfa I cannot commit:

>hg commit
abort: unresolved merge conflicts (see hg resolve)

UPDATE @balpha (I have changed the name of the owner to Foo)

>hg parent
changeset:   24:9ec904d2d5a2
tag:         tip
user:        petermr
date:        Sat Jan 09 16:40:38 2010 +0000
summary:     trying to sync

changeset:   22:360aedb72f0e
parent:      21:89c4bd671bd3
parent:      18:3cffa8ca3a2a
user:        Foo (not me)
date:        Fri Jan 08 16:15:50 2010 +0000
summary:     merged


>hg tip
changeset:   24:9ec904d2d5a2
tag:         tip
user:        petermr
date:        Sat Jan 09 16:40:38 2010 +0000
summary:     trying to sync

UPDATE

hg heads

changeset:   24:9ec904d2d5a2
tag:         tip
user:        petermr
date:        Sat Jan 09 16:40:38 2010 +0000
summary:     trying to sync

changeset:   22:360aedb72f0e
parent:      21:89c4bd671bd3
parent:      18:3cffa8ca3a2a
user:        Foo (not me)
date:        Fri Jan 08 16:15:50 2010 +0000
summary:     merged

UPDATE following @balpha comments below who suggests revert which asks for a revison (is this a number? If so how do I find it?)

>hg revert --all
abort: uncommitted merge - please provide a specific revision

UPDATE still cannot merge...

>hg revert --all -r tip
reverting .hgignore
reverting .hgignore~
reverting src\test\java\org\xmlcml\cml\converters\polyinfo\RegressionTest.java
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\algorithm\cmlAll.xml
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\irregular\cmlAll.xml
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\massChange\cmlAll.xml
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\massChangeOk\cmlAll.xml
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\ok\P340076.both.svg
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\ok\P340076.p.svg
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\ok\P340076.r.svg
reverting src\test\resources\PMR\ratio\cmlAll.xml

>hg status
M .hgignore
M .hgignore~
M src\test\resources\PMR\algorithm\cmlAll.xml
M src\test\resources\PMR\irregular\cmlAll.xml
M src\test\resources\PMR\massChange\cmlAll.xml
M src\test\resources\PMR\massChangeOk\cmlAll.xml
M src\test\resources\PMR\ok\P340076.both.svg
M src\test\resources\PMR\ok\P340076.p.svg
M src\test\resources\PMR\ok\P340076.r.svg
M src\test\resources\PMR\ratio\cmlAll.xml
? src\test\resources\PMR\bug\P020006work.both.svg
? src\test\resources\PMR\irregular\cmlAll.xml.resolve

>hg merge
abort: outstanding uncommitted merges

>hg commit
abort: unresolved merge conflicts (see hg resolve)

Note that

hg resolve -all

brings up the original problem of having to answer "y" to hundreds of individual questions and I don't know then whether it will resolve the problem. Your help is much appreciated!

UPDATE @balpha suggested cleaning - this seems to have made progress

>hg update --clean -r tip
10 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

>hg merge
merging src/test/resources/PMR/algorithm/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/algorithm/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/irregular/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/irregular/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/massChange/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/massChange/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/massChangeOk/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/massChangeOk/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/ok/P340076.both.svg
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/ok/P340076.both.svg appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/ok/P340076.p.svg
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/ok/P340076.p.svg appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/ok/P340076.r.svg
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/ok/P340076.r.svg appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
merging src/test/resources/PMR/ratio/cmlAll.xml
 output file src/test/resources/PMR/ratio/cmlAll.xml appears unchanged
was merge successful (yn)? y
2 files updated, 8 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)

>hg merge
abort: outstanding uncommitted merges

>hg merge -f
abort: outstanding uncommitted merges

>hg commit -u petermr -m "still trying to sy
nc"

>hg merge
abort: there is nothing to merge

>hg push
pushing to http://bitbucket.org/petermr/polyinfo/
searching for changes
http authorization required
realm: Bitbucket.org HTTP
user: petermr
password:
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 298 changes to 290 files
bb/acl: petermr is allowed. accepted payload.
quota: 13.3 MB in use, 150.0 MB available (8.87% used)

Answer 1

Your local clone of the repo is probably not up-to-date. Do a

hg pull

to change that. Now you have two heads locally (your own previous tip and the tip of the bitbucket repo). Now

hg merge

to merge the two heads and

hg commit -m "Merged before pushing"

Now your local repo has only one head, and this head is a child of the bitbucket head, so pushing will not create a remote head anymore:

hg push

and you're done.

Answer 2

Before you push code to a remote repository, first ensure your local repo is clean and has no outstanding merges.

Then, do a hg pull from the remote repository. This will create 2 heads on your local repository.

Do a local merge, and commit (resolving any conflicts).

Finally, push to the remote repository.

Do not, in general, push to a remote repository if multiple heads will be created there.