[Fwd: Re: Error converting P4 repo to Mercurial]

[Frank A. Kingswood]

Ron Gery wrote:
> Attached are the output when -v was used (which looks the same to me as 
> without the -v), the error (same as below) and the "p4 describe" for 
> both the last successful changelist (3797) and the one immediately 
> following (3798). As you can see from the log, the conversion started at 
> changelist 3768 even though I specified no start or end numbers and was 
> hoping to go back to 0 or at least somewhere in the 3000s.
> 
> I was ready to start mucking with the python code, but the closest thing 
> I found to "hgext/convert/p4.py" was a file called p4.pyc located at 
> that path in library.zip in the TortoiseHg install folder. I didn't find 
> any raw python code. I am completely ignorant in the ways of Python and 
> have no idea how hg is running off of the zip file, so if there is 
> actually somewhere else on my machine where I should be looking, please 
> let me know. What I did for the installation was download the TortoiseHg 
> package and install it.

Okay, I was not aware that the thg install did not bring the source code.

Thanks for the additional information. There appears to be nothing 
unusual about the failing changeset, it is not even very big.

Would you mind opening a bug report on http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/

This will allow us to work on the problem cooperatively - it will need 
someone more familiar with the Windows environment to help me out with this.

Frank