Subject: bug#33712: closed (Re: Some Mercurial checkouts probably have incorrect hashes)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:00:02 +0000

Your bug report

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

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: Some Mercurial checkouts probably have incorrect hashes
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:59:04 -0400
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It's been a while and I think that we will have noticed any incorrect
hashes by now. Closing.

Subject: Some Mercurial checkouts probably have incorrect hashes [was Re: hg-fetch with subrepos]
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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 <[email-masked]> 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.

[...]

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