GNU bug report logs - #33712
Some Mercurial checkouts probably have incorrect hashes [was Re: hg-fetch with subrepos]

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Some Mercurial checkouts probably have incorrect hashes [was Re:
 hg-fetch with subrepos]
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:08:19 -0500

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On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 02:58:52PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de> skribis:
> > And I stumbled upon that problem too. Ludovic explained me on IRC: The
> > problem is the metadata directory ".hg": It contains metadata that is
> > not fixed. For normal hg-repositories, it will be stripped away, but
> > not recursively for those with sub-repos.

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> However, we should audit current uses of ‘hg-fetch’ with recursive
> sub-repos because there hashes are most likely wrong already.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: 33712-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some Mercurial checkouts probably have incorrect hashes
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:59:04 -0400

It's been a while and I think that we will have noticed any incorrect
hashes by now. Closing.

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