error cloning encoding not supported

[Marco Giovannini]

I didn't create the symlink someone else who manages the repo had
created it ( I don't know when and who exactly ) and I made exactly
that

mv oldrepo oldrepo.orig
cp -Rp oldrepo.orig oldrepo

and the oldrepo.orig appeared but not oldrepo .

Regards,

Marco




On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Haszlakiewicz, Eric
<EHASZLA at transunion.com> wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Marco Giovannini [mailto:usernkey at gmail.com]
>>
>>the clone couln't fiind the repo because there was a link with another
>>path to it which "hide" the the original repo
>
> Sure, whatever, but you never explained how the link was created.  Symlinks don't just magically appear.   Based on what you wrote before, I (and everyone else reading this) were thinking that you did the equivalent of this:
>
>   hg init oldrepo  # at some point in the past, to create the repo.
>   # ... make changes to files in oldrepo, pull, commit, push, etc...
>   mv oldrepo oldrepo.orig
>   cp -Rp oldrepo.orig oldrepo
>
> If you saying there's a link present, then you must have run at least one additional command, but no-one has any way of knowing what that was.  This is why it's critical to show people the exact list of commands you ran.
>
> Anyway, it's good to hear that you managed to figure out your problem.
>
> eric
>