Re: LKML mercurial repository borked

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 21:31 -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> The lkml mercurial (hg) repository at:
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6
> 
> is borked.
> 
> Trying to "hg pull" from it fails quickly, with:
> 
>   pulling from http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6
>   abort: 'http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6' does not appear to be an hg repository!
> 
> Going to 'http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6' with a web browser fills
> ones browser screen with a RevlogError from some Python script.
> 
> The backdoor http://master.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6 still works,
> so my local configuration and installation of python and mercurial
> is apparently not messed up.  However we are not supposed to use
> that backdoor normally, as it has much less bandwidth (to quote
> a two year old message I have from Bryan, the last time something
> like this happened.)

Known problem from Python version skew between servers. Should be
resolved soon.

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