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

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 02:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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.

[...]

> 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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