.. in manifests not found / only partial clone

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 00:27 +0100, Benito van der Zander wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> > Was there a proximal cause to this data loss? Power outage? Abort caused
> > by setting +a (even though I told you it was a bad idea)?
> 
> Not sure
> 
> The abort might have happened  :(
> 
> 
> > What filesystem are you using? Ext4?
> 
> Still ext3
> 
> 
> > You can ask Mercurial which revisions you need to clone thusly:
> >
> > $ hg log -r "heads(not 3673::)"
> 
> How do you clone multiple revisions?
> 

$ hg clone -h
hg clone [OPTION]... SOURCE [DEST]
...
options ([+] can be repeated):
...
 -r --rev REV [+]       include the specified changeset

> > That's very odd. May be a bug. Or it may be that you've got the branch
> > cache marked append-only and it's now corrupt because Mercurial tried to
> > update it and silently failed.
> >
> 
> The entire cache is in .hg/cache ?
> I have only marked stuff in .hg/store/data as append only
> 
> Perhaps it is broken from the last time, when I deleted .i files and 
> restored them
> 
> Or because the repository did not have a "default" branch, but another 
> named branch that I renamed to default some time ago?
> 
> >> $ hg clone -r 3217:51428989e7dc . /tmp/wtf
> >> abort: unknown revision '3217:51428989e7dc'!
> > The string "3217:51428989e7dc" is not a revision.
> > It's two different forms of the name for one revision.
> > Much of Mercurial will now accept this as a revset: the one-element
> > range of all revisions from 3217 to 51428989e7dc.
> 
> One alone does not work either:
> $ hg clone -r 3217 . /tmp/wtf
> abort: unknown revision '3217'!

Are you running verify/clone/branches all in the same repo?

Does hg log -r 3217 work? 

Does hg log --hidden -r 3217 work? 

What hg version are you using?

> > But not clone, because
> > it can't hand a revset to a remote server.
> 
> It is all local.
> Cloning from one directory to another one

>From Mercurial's perspective, a remote repository is any repository that
is not the one you're running the command in.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.