hgweb: stop using HTML comments in <script> Once upon a time, in 1995, there were browsers that didn't understand <script> tags and they would simply show the code inside as text. This started a tradition of wrapping everything inside <script> in <!-- HTML comments -->. Nowadays, it's not only not needed, but can be considered harmful[1]: - within XHTML documents, the source will actually be hidden from all browsers and rendered useless - `--` is not allowed within HTML comments, so any decrement operations in script are invalid [1]: http://www.javascripttoolbox.com/bestpractices/#comments

  $ hg init

  $ echo 123 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "first" a

  $ mkdir sub
  $ echo 321 > sub/b
  $ hg add sub/b
  $ hg commit -m "second" sub/b

  $ cat sub/b
  321

  $ hg co 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cat sub/b 2>/dev/null || echo "sub/b not present"
  sub/b not present

  $ test -d sub || echo "sub not present"
  sub not present