hg convert in mercurial 1.2.1

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 17:24 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Greg Ward on Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 10:46:44 -0400
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:05 AM, wind57<wind_57 at mail.ru> wrote:
> >> 1. Upgraded to 1.3
> > 
> > Did you try that patch I emailed you?  It won't fix the problem, but
> > it should improve the error message.
> > 
> >> 2. I really don't know what an incremental conversion is, so ... I will not
> >> delete de cvsps, because I have no idea on the impact here.
> > 
> > It'll slow down your first conversion after deleting the cache, since
> > hg will have to reread all the cvs log output.  But sometimes starting
> > from scratch helps.  (I don't think it will here, but you never know.)
> 
> IIRC for 1.3 you /have/ to rebuild the cvsps cache because of
> change towards better branchpoint support (I believe). Anyway, I
> had to, and it didn't do any damage, just took some time.

If that's true, we should probably mention it in ReleaseNotes.

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