Sorry for the late response, Jeff. Apologies. I just booted up virtualbox. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Sickel <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <[email protected]> >> wrote: > >> I tried cloning the go repo multiple times with the new hg and I get >> the error *everytime*. :( > > What file system are you using?
I don't know. How do I find out? Is there an equiv of the Unix's fstab somewhere? I looked a bit but couldn't find it. Still finding my way around the system. > Have you tried 'hg clone -U'? Yes, that gave me same error message. > There are a few cases with hg where the repository your trying to clone has a > file stored in its repo that is longer than a valid path on certain Plan 9 > file systems. This is the case for go, python, and a few other prominent > repositories. In the case of go, getting the repo cloned without the update > can work, because it doesn't fail during the file walk that would be invalid > during temporary reconstruction if the work area file space. Then an update > to tip later will actually work because it bypasses the garbage file that was > replaced|moved in a later commit. Okay, I will clone it on another Unix system and copy it over into plan9 for the time being. Thanks. -- Ramakrishnan
