CODEWITHSUNDEEP
svnmercurial
Mister
Mister

Reputation: 94

Error "abort: unable to cope with svn output" converting Mercurial repository to SVN repository with "hg.exe convert" command

The Scene

I'm trying to convert a Mercurial repository to SVN. (I don't plan to leave it in SVN forever. Please believe that I do need it in SVN. We'll eventually move this to Git, but not today.)

Commands

cd into Hg working copy.
hg convert --source-type hg  --dest-type svn . ..\svn_repo_output_dir\

Output

It aborts before it is complete with:

unexpected svn output:
abort: unable to cope with svn output

Does anyone know how I can find out what SVN output the "hg convert" command keeps dying on, so I can solve this problem?

Update (Debug Info Added)

With three new agruments (--verbose, --debug, --traceback), here is the command:

hg convert --verbose --debug --traceback --source-type hg  --dest-type svn . ..\svn_layout7\

And here is its failure output:

Committing transaction...
Committed revision 89.
running: svn propset hg:convert-rev 4e6d788ad9389d8b8740f1c69dd3b8c76afc9e29 --revprop "--revision=89"
svn: E165006: Repository has not been enabled to accept revision propchanges;
ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook
77 #2140: Fixed "APP_NOT_INSTALLED" error in case InDesign CS5.5 is installed
source: e634a2c46761335bc78a04d97908ef64792c1742
76 Merge
source: 1a6a7e9ae244ff9976a7d1b84ff9241ea76169d4
running: svn commit "--username=ALady" "--file=c:\users\my_username\appdata\local\temp\hg-convert-jvaadp" "--encoding=utf-8"
unexpected svn output:
run hg source post-conversion action
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "mercurial\scmutil.pyo", line 165, in callcatch
  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 367, in _runcatchfunc
  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 1021, in _dispatch
  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 756, in runcommand
  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 1030, in _runcommand
  File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 1018, in <lambda>
  File "mercurial\util.pyo", line 1670, in check
  File "hgext\convert\__init__.pyo", line 450, in convert
  File "hgext\convert\convcmd.pyo", line 616, in convert
  File "hgext\convert\convcmd.pyo", line 525, in convert
  File "hgext\convert\convcmd.pyo", line 492, in copy
  File "hgext\convert\subversion.pyo", line 1332, in putcommit
Abort: unable to cope with svn output
abort: unable to cope with svn output

Upvotes: 3

Views: 93

Answers (1)

StayOnTarget
StayOnTarget

Reputation: 13048

This is not an exact solution but might help you get to one.

I found one report of a similar error where they recommended:

From hg help -v convert:

  -v --verbose           enable additional output
     --debug             enable debugging output

The following might help developers figuring out exactly where in the process it failed:

--traceback         always print a traceback on exception

These are good debugging tips for many circumstances, actually.

(You may want to try these options & add more info to the question if it appears to be relevant).

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions