Re: hgload problems

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:34:51 -0700, Muhali wrote:
> Rik-4 wrote
> >> if there is another file "foo.m" in the same directory you get the
> >> mentioned
> >> error (took me a while to find out). So I would consider this a bug
> >> (related
> >> to the 'Check file existence' part in hgload).
> > The problem is that the code used exist() to check for files and exist
> > searches for both the absolute file name and the file name + ".m".  I
> > changed the code to use file_in_loadpath() in this changeset
> > (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/70d9db29db6f) and this now
> > works for me.
> 
> no. If the file in question is foo.ofig, simply do
> 
> touch foo
> octave --eval 'hgload foo'
> 
> and you get the error. So, if there happens to be a file 'foo' lying around
> and one does 'hgsave foo; hgload foo' it doesn't work.

Let's move discussion back onto bug #41978.

-- 
mike