unknown exception encountered (ValueError raised from httprepo.py)

[Matt Mackall]

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On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:38 +0100, Vincent Delecroix wrote:
> 2010/11/16 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:
> > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 20:16 +0100, Vincent Delecroix wrote:
> >> Dear mercurial,
> >>
> >> I'm in trouble with a ValueError of mercurial that I'm not able to
> >> interpret correctly. I'm a developer for the Sage software
> >> (http://sagemath.org) and we're using mercurial version 1.3.1 as a
> >> version manager. As asked in the backtrace of the error, I'm sending
> >> an e-mail.
> >
> > What version are you using on the server?
> >
> 
> Thank you for your fast answer. The server's version is 1.1.2. Should
> we update ?

I suspect the problem is that a) you have a hook on the server
generating output b) the server version isn't rechanneling that output,
so it corrupts the protocol stream.

So you can either a) fix your hook to have no output or b) upgrade.

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