Re: [PATCH] remote-hg: do not fail on invalid bookmarks

Mike Hommey [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Antoine Pelisse wrote:

quoted

Mercurial can have bookmarks pointing to "nullid" (the empty root
revision), while Git can not have references to it.
When cloning or fetching from a Mercurial repository that has such a
bookmark, the import will fail because git-remote-hg will not be able to
create the corresponding reference.

Warn the user about the invalid reference, and continue the import,
instead of stopping right away.

It's not invalid, it's used to indicate deleted bookmarks. (Tags have
the same property)

So what should remote-hg behave in such a case, other than what
Antoine's change does (which is to, IIRC, warn, ignore and
continue).