From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:24:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-hg: do not fail on invalid bookmarks
Message-ID: <20131229222433.GA31355@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <1388316602-22443-1-git-send-email-apelisse@gmail.com>

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