Re: hg2git error

[Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>]

Hi,

* Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> > * Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > > Error: repository has at least one unnamed head: hg r533

> > I'm afraid there's nothing you can do except a) wait until somebody with
> > push access to the repo merges or b) do that yourself. The error means
> > that on a branch there's more than one head (i.e. childless
> > revision). There's no equivalent concept in git which is why I don't
> > know what to do. Generating fake branch names for git may be a little
> > messy I think.

> I disagree... The worst solution is to stop working at all.  A better 
> solution would be to ignore the unnamed head, and the best solution would 
> probably be to generate ref names that are _not_ branch names for such 
> heads.

Both solutions require refactoring and new code that is abled to walk
the DAG mercurial gives us since in both cases we'd need to find the
fork point. I don't know mercurials good enough to say if and how much
its API can help here.

I don't use git any longer and do only fix obvious breakages for
hg-fast-export, read: since this is a new feature I'm afraid I won't
implement it.

Rocco