Bug#494889: fetching from static-http://... broken
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: important
Using etch (version 0.9.1-1+etch1):
[jeroen@mordor]/tmp$ hg clone static-http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 16 changesets with 30 changes to 10 files
10 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
[jeroen@mordor]/tmp$
Using lenny (version 1.0.1-3)
[jeroen@eee]/tmp$ hg clone static-http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status
abort: 'http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status' does not appear to be an hg repository!
[jeroen@eee]/tmp$
This is not documented in the Debian changelog (the upstream changelog
is missing), and even if this feature is intentionally discontinued, the
hg command should report so and not fail with the "no repo found" error
message.
Thanks,
--Jeroen
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Thomas Arendsen Hein
> Using etch (version 0.9.1-1+etch1):
>
> [jeroen@mordor]/tmp$ hg clone static-http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status
> requesting all changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 16 changesets with 30 changes to 10 files
> 10 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> [jeroen@mordor]/tmp$
>
> Using lenny (version 1.0.1-3)
> [jeroen@eee]/tmp$ hg clone static-http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status
> abort: 'http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status' does not appear to be an hg repository!
> [jeroen@eee]/tmp$
>
> This is not documented in the Debian changelog (the upstream changelog
> is missing), and even if this feature is intentionally discontinued, the
> hg command should report so and not fail with the "no repo found" error
> message.
The feature is not discontinued, there is "just" a bug.
The automatic tests did not catch this problem, as it only appears
when the server uses the old repository layout without the store
directory, compare e.g.
http://hg.intevation.org/kolab/kuudecode/.hg/ (old layout)
with http://hg.intevation.org/argh/.hg/ (new layout)
"hg clone static-http://hg.intevation.org/kolab/kuudecode/" works
while "hg clone static-http://hg.intevation.org/argh/" yields the
same error as you reported.
A quick workaround for you is to clone your repository and move this
clone back in the old place. Of course old hg clients won't be able
to clone the new layout via static-http, only the usual network
protocol stayed compatible.
Regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Arendsen Hein
> The automatic tests did not catch this problem, as it only appears
> when the server uses the old repository layout without the store
> directory, compare e.g.
> http://hg.intevation.org/kolab/kuudecode/.hg/ (old layout)
> with http://hg.intevation.org/argh/.hg/ (new layout)
>
> "hg clone static-http://hg.intevation.org/kolab/kuudecode/" works
> while "hg clone static-http://hg.intevation.org/argh/" yields the
> same error as you reported.
>
> A quick workaround for you is to clone your repository and move this
> clone back in the old place. Of course old hg clients won't be able
> to clone the new layout via static-http, only the usual network
> protocol stayed compatible.
This problem was introduced by changeset 6605a03cbf87 which fixes
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue965
(hg clone static-http does not work for empty repos)
I'll take a look at how to fix this.
Thomas Arendsen Hein
> This problem was introduced by changeset 6605a03cbf87 which fixes
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue965
> (hg clone static-http does not work for empty repos)
I just pushed the fix for this problem to crew-stable:
http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew-stable/rev/98b6c3dde237
You can apply this patch to the Debian package.
Regards,
Thomas Arendsen Hein
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