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Re: [PATCH] remote-hg: do not fail on invalid bookmarks

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Dec 29, 2013, 22:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20131229222433.GA31355@glandium.org>
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<1388316602-22443-1-git-send-email-apelisse@gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Antoine Pelisse wrote:
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> 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
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  1. remote-hg: do not fail on invalid bookmarksAntoine Pelisse, Dec 29, 2013
  2. Mike HommeyDec 29, 2013
  3. Antoine PelisseDec 30, 2013
  4. Mike HommeyDec 30, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2013
  6. Torsten BögershausenJan 6, 2014
  7. Antoine PelisseJan 6, 2014

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