hg verify: 'unknown compression type'

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Aug 23 15:03:36 CDT 2005


On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:44:00AM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> Do you think it would be possible for hg verify (or a firend) to recover
> this error given a remote to pull the missing files from?

Not in general, no.

Repair is a much harder problem than detection, and errors should be
rare (never occur except in cases of hardware/OS failure), so it's
unclear whether effort spent on repair will be recouped.

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