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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 30, 2013, 19:12 UTC
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Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
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> 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)

So what should remote-hg behave in such a case, other than what Antoine's change does (which is to, IIRC, warn, ignore and continue).

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Message 5 of 7 in “remote-hg: do not fail on invalid bookmarks”
  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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