hg convert - can't read from repo type

[Ken Blake]

David,

On 11/1/07, David Champion <dgc at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> I expect that much of this time was just waiting for cvsps.  Cvsps
> produces a cache in ~/.cvsps though.  How long does it take to convert
> the repo again (to a new destination directory)?  I'd expect this to be
> substantially less than 14 hours.

cvsps by itself takes about 30 minutes.  I haven't noticed much
difference when adding the -u option.

> In my largest converted project, there were several ancient cvs branches
> that were never merged into the trunk.  In hg, these are represented as
> multiple heads, and when the convert was done one of these heads was
> the currently checked-out revision.  I followed convert with "hg up -C
> tip" to get back to modern times, and the result was consistent with my
> expectation.

I hadn't even checked that.  hg heads reports about 24 heads.  The
correct one was the tip but that's certainly something to keep in
mind.

Thanks,
Ken