[Python-Dev] Buildbots have trouble checking out the repository due to recent changes. (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon May 12 14:26:19 CEST 2008

Revision 63129 is not valid on case folding filesystems. In particular, this horribly breaks using hg-svn to make a local mirror of the Python repository:

That would be a bug in hg-svn, right? Yes, the revision is not valid on case-folding systems - but why should that break hg-svn? The tool should be able to represent such stuff in its repository (whatever concept of repository hg may have); it should then only fail if you also want to check out that specific revision.

There is no way to remove this revision from the repository now (other than a full dump|filter|load cycle, which I would rather want to avoid).

I know it's a rare situation, but can people PLEASE be careful not to introduce case issues like this - they pollute history for ever (I still hit problems with some of the case funkiness in svn from the early 1990's!!!)

Subversion's first release was in October 2000; it wasn't self-hosting until 2001 :-)

Regards, Martin

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