[issue3311] convert:

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:24 +0000, Andre Lombard wrote:
> Christoph <bugs <at> mercurial.selenic.com> writes:
> > 
> >   C:\> hg convert test test2
> >   initializing empty test2 repository
> >   abort: invalid mode ('r') or filename
> > 
> 
> I experienced the exact same problem.  I was trying to convert from an SVN repo 
> (something I do several times a week, i.e. I know I was doing it "right").  
> Downgrading from v2.1.1 to v2.1 resolved the problem for me too.

Can you try using bisect to pin down the problem? Using the Hackable
install should make this pretty painless:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HackableMercurial

Also, it'll make it easy to test against the head of the stable or
default branches.

Oh wait, we already tracked down the cause here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue3311

I've pushed a fix to stable.

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