fatal: Invalid raw date

[wRAR]

hg-fast-export fails on a checkout of ssh://anonhg@hg.illumos.org/illumos-gate

master: Exporting simple delta revision 7371/14114 with 0/7/0 added/changed/removed files
fatal: Invalid raw date "<devnull@localhost> 1219151827 -0600" in ident:  <Gerald Jelinek> <devnull@localhost> 1219151827 -0600
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_1875
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 387, in <module>
    options.statusfile,authors=a,sob=options.sob,force=options.force))
  File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 321, in hg2git
    c=export_commit(ui,repo,rev,old_marks,max,c,authors,sob,brmap)
  File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 214, in export_commit
    export_file_contents(ctx,man,changed)
  File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 125, in export_file_contents
    wr(d)
  File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 26, in wr
    sys.stdout.write(msg)
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

The crash dump contains this command:

  commit refs/heads/master
  mark :7371
* committer <Gerald Jelinek> <devnull@localhost> 1219151827 -0600

[frej]

Andrey Rahmatullin notifications@github.com writes:

hg-fast-export fails on a checkout of ssh://anonhg@hg.illumos.org/illumos-gate

Can't reproduce:

$ hg clone ssh://anonhg@hg.illumos.org/illumos-gate
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
$

But,

The crash dump contains this command:

commit refs/heads/master
mark :7371

• committer devnull@localhost 1219151827 -0600

According to "git fast-import --help" the format should be:

'committer' (SP )? SP LT GT SP LF

As we now have "" fast-import tries to parse
"devnull@localhost" as a date which of course fails. Read the usage
section in the README file for help on how to use the -A option to clean
up bad author information.

Cheers,

--Frej

[frej]

No response in half a year. Closing.

[tmbdev]

I have the same problem:

$ hg-fast-export -r /home/tmb/bitbucket/iuprlab
master: Exporting full revision 1/3 with 34/0/0 added/changed/removed files
master: Exporting simple delta revision 2/3 with 3/1/3 added/changed/removed files
fatal: Invalid raw date "devnull@localhost 1414262098 -0700" in ident: devnull@localhost 1414262098 -0700
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_31260
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 387, in
options.statusfile,authors=a,sob=options.sob,force=options.force))
File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 321, in hg2git
c=export_commit(ui,repo,rev,old_marks,max,c,authors,sob,brmap)
File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 213, in export_commit
export_file_contents(ctx,man,added)
File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 125, in export_file_contents
wr(d)
File "/usr/share/hg-fast-export/hg-fast-export.py", line 26, in wr
sys.stdout.write(msg)
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
$

[frej]

Can you provide a link to a repo which has this problem, or a recipe
for creating such a repo?

[tmbdev]

You can clone the repository from here:

https://tmbdev@bitbucket.org/tmbdev/iuprlab

[brianz]

I hit this issue when the hg repo I was converting had <> <devnull@localhost> 1414788260 -0700 as the committer. I resolved this by placing the following in an authors.txt file and passing that in with the -A flag:

<>=devnull <devnull@localhost>
\<\>=devnull <devnull@localhost>  

[trevor]

I hit this issue too. The -A authors.txt worked with this as content:

<>=devnull <devnull@localhost>

Could this be made a default?

[timraasveld]

Update to @brianz ' excellent advice. In the latest version of hg-fast-export, each key and value of authors.txt should be quoted to avoid the error: Invalid file format in [authors.txt], line 1

So it becomes:

"<>"="devnull <devnull@localhost>"
"\<\>"="devnull <devnull@localhost>"