I'm working on my thesis and storing changes in mercurial. I'm not getting an error that I've got multiple heads, which I'm confused about -- I've only got one working repository which I push occasionally to bitbucket. Here's what happened:
$ hg commit -m "Fixing up..."
abort: No such file or directory: /Users/me/Dropbox/thesis/thesis_tex/simple.pdf
$ hg commit -m "Adding in page headers"
created new head
...one more commit, not having realized that having created a new head was a problem...
$ hg push
pushing to ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/...
searching for changes
abort: push creates new remote heads!
(did you forget to merge? use push -f to force)
$ hg heads
changeset: 26:3823a395b1ce
tag: tip
user: me
date: Fri Aug 26 09:39:45 2011 -0400
summary: Adding...
changeset: 24:c7c6517d4281
user: me
date: Thu Aug 25 16:34:42 2011 -0400
summary: Fixing up...
How can I easily get rid of the other head, without messing up my working directory? Why did a second head get created? Is there a problem with keeping mercurial repositories in dropbox folders?
How can I easily get rid of the other head, without messing up my working directory?
Merge the branches with hg merge.
Is there a problem with keeping mercurial repositories in dropbox folders?
This seems redundant to me, since Dropbox keeps a 30-day history on your files. I'd choose either Hg+Bitbucket (or whatever Mercurial hosting) or Dropbox, but not both.
Edit: Why not use Mercurial and Dropbox? Here's why.
By keeping your Mercurial repo on Dropbox you’re version controlling your version control system files. If you somehow manage to cause a conflict with files in your .hg directory, things could get messy. Recoverable, but messy.