[issue1137] convert silently fails when cvsps not present

[Jeff Laughlin]

New submission from Jeff Laughlin <jeff.laughlin at gmail.com>:

If cvsps is not installed, hg convert silently fails when converting CVS to HG.

laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr$ hg convert avarice avarice-hg
destination avarice-hg is a Mercurial repository
connecting to :pserver:anonymous at avarice.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/avarice
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr$ cd avarice-hg/
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr/avarice-hg$ hg stat
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr/avarice-hg$ hg log
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr/avarice-hg$ ls -l
total 0
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr/avarice-hg$ hg update
abort: branch default not found
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr/avarice-hg$ du -hs
20K     .


After installing cvsps it works fine
sudo apt-get install cvsps
...
laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr$ hg convert avarice
assuming destination avarice-hg
destination avarice-hg is a Mercurial repository
connecting to :pserver:anonymous at avarice.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/avarice
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
183 Initial revision
182 Initial import of avarice changes from the nescc project
181 * AUTHORS: New file.
180 * Bootstrap: Add "-a -c" to second call to automake so depcomp will be
...


laughlin at fry:~/personal/development/avr/avarice-hg$ hg log |head
changeset:   184:cfe30965fc9a
tag:         tip
user:        convert-repo
date:        Sat May 24 05:55:39 2008 +0000
summary:     update tags

changeset:   183:af4251dbacb3
user:        joerg_wunsch
date:        Mon Feb 25 00:49:02 2008 -0800
summary:     Add device descriptor entries for ATtiny84 and ATtiny85.

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messages: 6084
nosy: n1ywb
priority: bug
status: unread
title: convert silently fails when cvsps not present
topic: convert

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