TortoiseHg 0.8 and pull error

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Steve Borho<steve at borho.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Craig
> McQueen<mcqueen-c at edsrd1.yzk.co.jp> wrote:
>> Steve Borho wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Steve Borho<steve at borho.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Craig McQueen<mcqueen-c at edsrd1.yzk.co.jp>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Sorry if this is a stupid question...
>>
>> In TortoiseHg 0.8 on Windows XP, if I select "Synchronise" then click "Pull"
>> in TortoiseHg, it is telling me:
>>
>> (None, GetoptError('option --nofork not recognized', 'nofork'))
>>
>>
>> The only other person who reported this had the fixutf8 extension loaded.
>>
>> http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/issue/297
>>
>> I have no idea how that error ends up in the synchronize output
>> window.  Was there a valid path entered to pull from?
>>
>>
>> Other random questions:
>>
>> Do you happen to have another copy of THG installed?
>> Was that text in red?
>> Was the URL http:// or ssh://?
>> Do the other buttons give the same error?
>>
>> Lastly.  Could you try this from a command prompt:
>>
>> set THGDEBUG=1
>> hgtk synch
>>
>> And check if there is spew on the console when you press 'Pull'?
>>
>> --
>> Steve Borho
>>
>>
>>
>> No other copies of THG installed.
>> Yes text was red.
>> URL was https:// or local file. The repository I'm working with was pulling
>> from a USB key with filename p:\Mercurial\reponame.
>> It also happens when I try "push", "incoming", "outgoing".
>> It only happens when I start THG from Explorer. If I start it from the
>> command line with 'hgtk synch' then I just get the message 'sync [command
>> interrupted]' (in red).
>> I tried THGDEBUG=1 but saw no extra text.
>
> Thanks for humouring me.  Now I'm real curious how fixutf8 can cause that.

Without even looking at, I understand now what is happening.  fixutf8
is monkeypatching Mercurial's dispatch() function and replacing my
['pull', 'url', '--verbose'] arguments with unicode safe version of
sys.argv[1:]  (['--nofork', 'sync'] when launched from explorer, just
['sync'] when launched from the command line).

So it's safe to say fixutf8 as it's currently implemented cannot
interoperate safely with THG.

--
Steve Borho