[issue2674] hg diff -S (include subrepos) throws exception

[Jonas Brekle]

New submission from Jonas Brekle <jonas.brekle at gmail.com>:

a hg diff -s outputs (besides some(?) correct differences) this error message:

** unknown exception encountered, please report by visiting
**  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker
** Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56) [GCC 4.4.5]
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.7.5)
** Erweiterungen geladen: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hg", line 38, in <module>
    mercurial.dispatch.run()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run
    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 36, in
dispatch
    return _runcatch(u, args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 58, in
_runcatch
    return _dispatch(ui, args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 593, in
_dispatch
    cmdpats, cmdoptions)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 401, in
runcommand
    ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 644, in
_runcommand
    return checkargs()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 598, in
checkargs
    return cmdfunc()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 591, in
<lambda>
    d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/util.py", line 426, in check
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/commands.py", line 1509, in diff
    listsubrepos=opts.get('subrepos'))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/cmdutil.py", line 734, in
diffordiffstat
    stat=stat, fp=fp, prefix=prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/subrepo.py", line 363, in diff
    node1 = node.bin(self._state[1])
TypeError: Odd-length string

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messages: 15471
nosy: jbrekle
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hg diff -S (include subrepos) throws exception

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