Cloning a mercurial repository where .hgsub refers to a dead external subrepo

[Mark Wang]

Thanks -- but the issue is that the external subrepo changed from a
Mercurial one to a git one:

Specifically, I have in my hgrc:

^https://cocoahttpserver.googlecode.com/hg/ = [git]
https://code.google.com/p/cocoahttpserver/

I tried update, but I get:

pulling subrepo ToolKit/DAVServer/cocoahttpserver from [git]
https://code.google.com/p/cocoahttpserver/
abort: repository [git]https://code.google.com/p/cocoahttpserver/ not found!

Is this scenario even supported?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 16:34 -0700, Mark Wang wrote:
> > Hello -- We're trying to clone a Mercurial repository A where it
> references
> > a subrepository B that's moved hosts. We'd like to update .hgsub in A to
> > point to the new location of B, but it's a chicken and egg problem if we
> > can't hg clone A in the first place (it aborts when it can't find the
> > defunct host of B).
>
> First get a clone with no working directory:
>
>  hg clone <url> -u
>
> This will skip the subrepo cloning step. Next add a new section
> to .hg/hgrc:
>
>  [subpaths]
>  <some pattern> = <some replacement>
>
> Then update.
>
> --
> Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
>
>
>
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