On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Robert Baertsch wrote:

hg update stable --clean is not an option. I lose all of my changes.

I'm not sure why hg checkout tools does anything. the issue is with the static directory.

In the other thread, 'tools' was the name of my local branch where I'd checked in my local changes. Are you making changes locally but not committing them to source code control? That sounds very risky since you could easily loose them with the wrong hg command. Peter