unknown exception error during hg commit

[Seth Falcon]

On 20 Sep 2005, mpm at selenic.com wrote:
>> transaction abort!
>> rollback completed
>>
>> Any advice for cleaning up my mess, not creating the mess again,
>> etc?
>
> There shouldn't be any mess to clean up - it rolled back the
> partially completed checkin.

:-)

> Not sure what's happening here though, perhaps Chris has a theory.

What I'm attempting to do may be a bad idea: use hg directly in
tracking a project that uses another SCM (svn).

There was another post today about using hg to track a project that
uses another SCM.  It looks like the way to do this is with tailor
(http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor).

But if you don't care about tracking the history of the project your
are tracking, it seems not unreasonable to put a working copy from the
foreign SCM into hg.

+ seth

PS: if the error looks like it is worth tracking down, let me know
what other info I can provide.  I'm running Python 2.4 on OS X.