Friends, i have a project host on a git repository. The project had around 41 commits and size of around 375MB. I wanted to convert this repository to a hg repository. I tried "hg convert" utility to convert the git repo to hg. The process started converting the git repo but hanged (did not stop) midway. I let the process run for more than half hour but it did not give any error nor did it exit. After some time, I had to forcefully kill the process. I am currently using hg 2.0 version and git version 1.7.5.4 After trying and failing with the above process for 2-3 times, I went to "hg clone git repo" method. Even this process hung indefinitely.
Can you rerun the convert conversion with --debug. Converting git repos usually hangs when convert try to grabs remote branches to turn them into bookmarks and wait on an authentication prompt which may or may not be displayed. You can also try to comment out the call to this function: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew/file/11aad09a6370/hgext/convert/git.py#l180
@pmezard thanks for the quick reply .. the debug option revealed the main bug. The conversion is stopped because it is trying to get a file "qqq_trace.out" from the git-repo. I remember creating this file and having issues uploading it to the git repo. But if I had deleted the file forcefully from the repo or the file got corrupted, does this mean my repo cannot get converted ?? Can i do something like change the particular version in the git repo and try the samething again ?? or this is a different issue altogether ??
I suppose you see which convert git command is taking forever to complete? It would be interesting to know what is really wrong here, whether the command is normally slow or the repository is corrupted or anything else. Unfortunately I do not know git enough to help you there. Can you tell us which command is taking a long time to complete?
@ patrick even i thought that the command is slow but then i was converting a local repo. this should rule out the slow network option. next i thought that the command is slow. but then i tried to track the size of the converted repo. The size of the repo git stuck at 50MB and did not increase thereafter. I used "du -ksh " to find the repo size. I also used the lsof to check the files that hg was currently writing. anyways i think that the file got into the git repository accidentally. i will remove it from all the versions and check again. will update here soon ...
You can also try to use a filemap with convert that excludes the bad file.
--- Bug imported by bugzilla@serpentine.com 2012-05-12 09:28 EDT --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3262 at http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue3262
Bulk close: no activity for >2 years -> WONTFIX
Bulk change recent WONTFIX -> new, more descriptive ARCHIVED state (sorry for the spam)
Fixed by https://mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/7caf632e30c3 Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> filecache: unimplement __set__() and __delete__() (API) Implementing __set__() implies that the descriptor can't be overridden by obj.__dict__, which means any property access involves slow function call. "Data descriptors with __set__() and __get__() defined always override a redefinition in an instance dictionary. In contrast, non-data descriptors can be overridden by instances." https://docs.python.org/2.7/reference/datamodel.html#invoking-descriptors This patch basically backs out 236bb604dc39, "scmutil: update cached copy when filecached attribute is assigned (issue3263)." The problem described in issue3263 (which is #3264 in Bugzilla) should no longer happen since repo._bookmarkcurrent has been moved to repo._bookmarks.active. We still have a risk of introducing similar bugs, but I think that's the cost we have to pay. $ hg perfrevset 'branch(tip)' -R mercurial (orig) wall 0.139511 comb 0.140000 user 0.140000 sys 0.000000 (best of 66) (prev) wall 0.114195 comb 0.110000 user 0.110000 sys 0.000000 (best of 81) (this) wall 0.099038 comb 0.110000 user 0.100000 sys 0.010000 (best of 93) (please test the fix)
Bug was set to TESTING for 7 days, resolving