From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:43:15 GMT
Subject: Re: hg2git error
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905251341370.4288@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090525113418.GA3259@robert>

Hi,

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.

Ciao,
Dscho