evolve doesn't load in some hggit clone

[Ernie Rael]

Hi all,

I need help understanding this failure. Might be python3 and/or Win7 
related issue.

I would like to open a meaningful bug report, more than "sometimes fails".

Looked through bugzilla since July, didn't see anything that seemed to match

-ernie

On 11/15/2020 11:44 AM, Ernie Rael wrote:
> With Win7,mercurial-5.6 (from python3 64.msi, not Tortoisehg)
>
> A python3 problem?
>
> Failure to load evolve if in a recently used git repository.
> In an older repo (cloned from same git repo), or no repo,
> or clone not hg-git then it finds evolve.
>
> If I use Tortoisehg 5.6 (Python27), things work as expected.
>
> I'm happy to provide more info, and I don't know where to start...
>
> Where it works hg debugconfig shows
>     extensions.hggit=C:/f/pf/Python38/lib/site-packages/hggit
> extensions.evolve=C:/f/pf/Python38/lib/site-packages/hgext3rd/evolve
> extensions.topic=C:/f/pf/Python38/lib/site-packages/hgext3rd/topic
> And where it doesn't
>     extensions.hggit=C:/f/pf/Python38/lib/site-packages/hggit
> extensions.topic=C:/f/pf/Python38/lib/site-packages/hgext3rd/topic
>
>
> === In a directory which is not a repo
> $ hg --version -v
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.6)
>   evolve      external  10.1.0
>   hggit       external  0.9.0 (dulwich 0.20.11)
>   topic       external  0.20.0
>
>
> === In a recently used git clone repo, note evolve does not load
>
> /f/repos/swingset/swingset-4
> $ hg --version
> *** failed to import extension evolve: No module named 'evolve'
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.6)
>
> === In an older git clone repo, not used for a while
>
> /f/repos/swingset/swingset-code
> $ hg --version
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.6)
>
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