CVS2Hg convertion issue

[Michael Haggerty]

On 08/29/2011 01:45 PM, Petchimuthu wrote:
>      I have used cvs2hg command for converting my CVS repository to HG.
>  While converting i got the below mentioned error.. 
> 
> Please tell me how to  fix this one? 
> 
>  Converting metadata to UTF8... *WARNING: Problem decoding  log message:* 
> 
> 
> 
> *ERROR: There were warnings converting author names and/or
>  log messages to Unicode (see messages above). Please restart this pass
>  with one or more '--encoding' parameters or with '--fallback-encoding'.*
> 
>  FYI : Log message contains some* non alphabet* character like �Issue
> fixed."

The error message that you quoted tells you what to do.  You have to
determine what character encoding was used in the log message and pass
it to cvs2hg using the --encoding or --fallback-encoding options.

Michael

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