Solve and understand HTTP Error 414: Request-URI Too Large

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 09/01/2014 11:41 AM, Daniel Siepmann wrote:
> Hey Matt,
>
> we are using Apache/2.2.16 (Debian).
> I could not fetch the url and headers using a sniffer tool. I just got
> Hexvalues.
> A teammate also thinks the url is build using all topological heads.
> Currently some mates are closing their branches AFTER merging them. This
> way they are still a head that needs to be pulled.
> We are merging them again and defined our workflow to close branches and
> merge their heads afterwards.
> We hope to solve the problem this way. Thanks for your help. I'll post
> our experience with the changed workflow here to finish the thread.


Since quite a while (Mercurial 1.8 or 1.9 if I remember correctly), 
Mercurial is using a way to exchange the heads that is behind smarter 
about the way it communicate heads. So there is probably some old 
clients or server involved here. If not, you have found some interesting 
bugs.


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Pierre-Yves David