clone error : struct.error: unpack str size does not match format

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:26:35PM +0800, Judy Gao wrote:
> Hi All ,
>
> I have a mecurial repository , it works well before .
> However it shows me error today for unknown reason .
> It can show correctly for "hg tip/log/status" , but it failed to "hg  
> clone " or "hg verify " .
> The output error is the same , please see the below error :
>
> bash-3.00$ hg clone <one_repo> <another_repo>
> requesting all changes
> checking changesets
> checking manifests
> crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
> checking files
> ** unknown exception encountered, details follow
> ** report bug details to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts
> ** or mercurial at selenic.com
> ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 0.9.5)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
[snip]
> "/java/svc/kto/Mercurial/0.9.5/dist/solaris-sparc/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mercurial/revlog.py", 
> line 463, in __init__
> struct.error: unpack str size does not match format
>
>
> Please reply me directly , I am not subscribe the mail alias .

Any chance you could:
- run verify with a newer hg version (download the tarball, make local,
  and use the full /path/to/hg should do it without messing with your
  installation)
or
- provide the broken repo, so we can have a look

regards,

Benoit

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