Re: [9fans] Python/Mercurial error

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com>]

Sorry for the late response, Jeff. Apologies. I just booted up virtualbox.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I tried cloning the go repo multiple times with the new hg and I get
>> the error *everytime*. :(
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> What file system are you using?

I don't know. How do I find out? Is there an equiv of the Unix's fstab
somewhere? I looked a bit but couldn't find it. Still finding my way
around the system.

> Have you tried 'hg clone -U'?

Yes, that gave me same error message.

> There are a few cases with hg where the repository your trying to clone has a file stored in its repo that is longer than a valid path on certain Plan 9 file systems.  This is the case for go, python, and a few other prominent repositories.  In the case of go, getting the repo cloned without the update can work, because it doesn't fail during the file walk that would be invalid during temporary reconstruction if the work area file space.  Then an update to tip later will actually work because it bypasses the garbage file that was replaced|moved in a later commit.

Okay, I will clone it on another Unix system and copy it over into
plan9 for the time being.

Thanks.

-- 
  Ramakrishnan