From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-hg: do not fail on invalid bookmarks Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 07:24:33 +0900 Message-ID: <20131229222433.GA31355@glandium.org> References: <1388316602-22443-1-git-send-email-apelisse@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Contreras To: Antoine Pelisse X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 30 00:09:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VxPTs-0002PQ-R3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:09:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752628Ab3L2XIq (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:08:46 -0500 Received: from ks3293202.kimsufi.com ([5.135.186.141]:49088 "EHLO jigen.glandium.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752496Ab3L2XIq (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:08:46 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2647 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:08:45 EST Received: from mh by jigen.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1VxOmf-0008A0-Ur; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 07:24:33 +0900 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1388316602-22443-1-git-send-email-apelisse@gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 182E 161D 1130 B9FC CD7D B167 E42A A04F A6AA 8C72 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Antoine Pelisse wrote: > Mercurial can have bookmarks pointing to "nullid" (the empty root > revision), while Git can not have references to it. > When cloning or fetching from a Mercurial repository that has such a > bookmark, the import will fail because git-remote-hg will not be able to > create the corresponding reference. > > Warn the user about the invalid reference, and continue the import, > instead of stopping right away. It's not invalid, it's used to indicate deleted bookmarks. (Tags have the same property) Mike