[issue1743] AttributeError when importing CVS repository

[Alpar Juttner]

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:14 +0000, Willem Verstraeten wrote:
> New submission from Willem Verstraeten <willem.verstraeten at gmail.com>:
> 
> When importing a CVS repository with the following command:
> 
> hg convert --config convert.cvsps=builtin --config
> convert.cvsps.mergeto='Merged changes from (BRANCH_.*) between .*' -A
> cvs2hgauthors  --filemap lucy_file_map CVS_working_dir/product/LuciadMap/Lucy/
> 
> I get following exception after a while:

I've just run into another error when converting from svn. It appears
consistently at the commit numbered 91 below if I rerun hg convert.

Any idea what can be wrong with that commit?

Regards,
Alpar

$ hg convert svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt .
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
891 Merge r15072 to 8.09 (#5103)
890 [packages] ruby: add dependency on ruby-core to ruby-irb (closes:
#5112)
889 [packages] lcd4linux: only build routerboard driver on rb532
888 [8.09] [packages] libsigc++, libtorrent, rtorrent: merge fixes
from ./packages to 8.09 (closes: #4997)

[Snip a lot of commit]

95 Fix typo in r15659
94 remove obsolete prereq checks
93 clean up / fix various Host/Clean templates in tools/ (backport from
r15714)
92 add missing dependency
91 restore 2.6.23 support for rb532. 2.6.24 is 100% broken and was only
added accidentally
transaction abort!
rollback completed
** unknown exception encountered, details follow
** report bug details to http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/
** or mercurial at selenic.com
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3)
** Extensions loaded: convert, children, hgk, graphlog
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hg", line 27, in <module>
    mercurial.dispatch.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
16, in run
    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
27, in dispatch
    return _runcatch(u, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
43, in _runcatch
    return _dispatch(ui, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
449, in _dispatch
    return runcommand(lui, repo, cmd, fullargs, ui, options, d)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
317, in runcommand
    ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
501, in _runcommand
    return checkargs()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
454, in checkargs
    return cmdfunc()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line
448, in <lambda>
    d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/util.py", line 370,
in check
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/convert/__init__.py",
line 232, in convert
    return convcmd.convert(ui, src, dest, revmapfile, **opts)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/convert/convcmd.py",
line 395, in convert
    c.convert(sortmode)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/convert/convcmd.py",
line 329, in convert
    self.copy(c)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/convert/convcmd.py",
line 301, in copy
    self.source, self.map)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/convert/hg.py", line
164, in putcommit
    self.repo.commitctx(ctx)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/localrepo.py", line
930, in commitctx
    changed)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/localrepo.py", line
776, in _filecommit
    self.ui.debug(_(" %s: copy %s:%s\n") % (fname, cfname, hex(crev)))
TypeError: b2a_hex() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not
None
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