hg-git downloads the GitHub project directory, not the git repo

[billgarrison]

My environment:
hg-git 0.2.6
dulwich 0.7.1
git 1.7.4.4
hg 1.8.2
Mac OS X 10.6.7, Xcode 4

Observed:
When I use hg-git to clone any GitHub repo that doesn't belong to me, I get the GitHub project directory instead of the git repo.

I get the correct behavior from hg-git when cloning repos on GitHub that I have created, which were all natively Mercurial repos previously pushed to GitHub via hg-git.

With hg

$ hg clone git://github.com/gabriel/gh-unit.git
destination directory: gh-unit
importing Hg objects into Git
Counting objects: 5137, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (1938/1938), done.
Total 5137 (delta 3470), reused 4579 (delta 3001)
importing Git objects into Hg
updating to branch default
97 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd gh-unit; ls 
.gitignore                                                    _g_h_test_operation_8h_source.html                            functions.html
.hg/                                                          _g_h_test_runner_8h_source.html                               functions_func.html
.nojekyll                                                     _g_h_test_suite_8h_source.html                                functions_prop.html
Info.plist                                                    _g_h_test_view_model_8h_source.html                           globals.html
Nodes.xml                                                     _g_h_testing_8h_source.html                                   globals_defs.html
Tokens.xml                                                    _g_h_u_n_s_object_09_swizzle_8h_source.html                   hierarchy.html
_building.html                                                _g_h_unit_8h_source.html                                      index.html
_command_line.html                                            _hudson.html                                                  installdox*
_customizing.html                                             _installing.html                                              interface_g_h_async_test_case.html
_env_variables.html                                           _n_s_exception_09_g_h_test_failure_exceptions_8h_source.html  interface_g_h_async_test_case.png
_examples.html                                                _n_s_value_09_g_h_value_formatter_8h_source.html              interface_g_h_test_case.html
_g_h_async_test_case_8h_source.html                           _test_macros.html                                             interface_g_h_test_case.png
_g_h_mock_n_s_h_t_t_p_u_r_l_response_8h_source.html           annotated.html                                                nav_f.png
_g_h_mock_n_s_u_r_l_connection_8h_source.html                 bc_s.png                                                      nav_h.png
_g_h_n_s_locale_09_mock_8h_source.html                        class_g_h_async_test_case-members.html                        open.png
_g_h_test_09_j_unit_x_m_l_8h_source.html                      class_g_h_test_case-members.html                              pages.html
_g_h_test_8h_source.html                                      classes.html                                                  search/
_g_h_test_case_8h_source.html                                 closed.png                                                    tab_a.png
_g_h_test_group_09_j_unit_x_m_l_8h_source.html                deprecated.html                                               tab_b.png
_g_h_test_group_8h_source.html                                doxygen.css                                                   tab_h.png
_g_h_test_macros_8h.html                                      doxygen.png                                                   tab_s.png
_g_h_test_macros_8h_source.html                               files.html                                                    tabs.css

With git

$ git clone git://github.com/gabriel/gh-unit.git
Cloning into gh-unit...
remote: Counting objects: 5137, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1938/1938), done.
remote: Total 5137 (delta 3470), reused 4579 (delta 3001)
Receiving objects: 100% (5137/5137), 21.17 MiB | 591 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3470/3470), done.
$ cd gh-unit; ls
ls
.git/             CHANGELOG.md      Classes-IPhone/   Documentation/    Examples/         Libraries/        Makefile          Project-IPhone/   Scripts/          Tests/
.gitignore        Classes/          Classes-MacOSX/   Doxyfile          LICENSE           Libraries-MaxOSX/ Project/          README.md         TODO.md           XcodeConfig/

[billgarrison]

To add more info to this issue:

It appears that hg-git only has problems with certain GitHub repos. I was able to successfully clone git://github.com/schacon/hg-git.git with both git and hg-git.

[nightkr]

To me it looks like that this happens on projects which use GitHub Pages, probably also only when the pages were the last thing updated.
Try executing $ hg update master.

[billgarrison]

Hmm. I couldn't verify whether $ hg update master would work. The gh-unit repo came down fine this time on a fresh hg clone attempt. It looks like that repo's master branch was the most recently updated.

I'll try this next time I run into the problem and update the issue.

[Jaharmi]

I had this problem happen with the Luggage repo using both Mercurial 1.9.1 and Mercurial 2.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

$ hg clone git://github.com/unixorn/luggage.git

I made multiple clone attempts and it always resulted in the local repo showing the GitHub project rather than the source. I found this issue and tried $ hg update master and it appeared to work (had reinstalled Hg 1.9.1 beforehand).

I had also had problems using $ hg fetch to get the latest commits from the GH source repo.

$ hg fetch
abort: outstanding uncommitted merge

To my knowledge, I hadn't actually had any changes to merge. My local repo was showing that all of the source files were modified when I checked after the fetch with $ hg status.