hg clone fails with abort: could not symlink to

[Kishore Vasudeva]

> What happens when you use a recent version of Mercurial?
>   
I can reproduce the problem with Hg 1.3.1 on a Solaris system. I 
downloaded the latest version(1.4.2) and attempted to reproduce it on 
windows. The problem is not seen there. Hg clone works.

I cannot conclude if it is the newer version of Mercurial that fixed 
this problem or the problem is not seen on Windows at all. I need to try 
with the older version on windows.
> What does hg manifest -v -r tip report for the files in question?
>   
For the 3 problematic files:

644 @ 
commssuite/im/l10n/l10nsrc/ko/src/com/iplanet/im/client/help/index.html
644 @ 
commssuite/im/l10n/l10nsrc/zh/src/com/iplanet/im/client/help/index.html
644 @ 
commssuite/im/l10n/l10nsrc/zh_TW/src/com/iplanet/im/client/help/index.html

'ls' reports:
commssuite/im/l10n/l10nsrc/ko/src/com/iplanet/im/client/help/index.html: 
No such file or directory
commssuite/im/l10n/l10nsrc/zh/src/com/iplanet/im/client/help/index.html: 
No such file or directory
commssuite/im/l10n/l10nsrc/zh_TW/src/com/iplanet/im/client/help/index.html: 
No such file or directory


> Can you use clone -r to locate the problematic revision by simple
> bisection? Is there anything interesting about it?
The only interesting thing I see is the changeset diffs(via hgweb) show 
the following for the 3 files:

-toc.html
\ No newline at the end of file
+
+ (contents of this file)
> p/index.html
> Is the repo public?
>   
Unfortunately, not

-Kishore

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