Mercurial Pull Error

Question

I am new to the dvcs world. My company uses perforce and I'm not a fan so I thought I'd try to use mercurial as a front end. I set it up on a windows machine with TortiseHG, enabled the Perfarce extension, did a small checkout (limiting the target revision) and pulled for the rest. This seemed to be more robust than clone alone.

This seems to be working fairly well as I've been able to get up to change 8700 or so.

My problem is with an error in the perforce repo. During the hg pull command it hits an error abort: file path/to/file.pl missing in p4 workspace and rolls back the transaction.

Is there anyway to bypass or skip that file and force it to continue since this is not a file I care about.

Update: According to the admin, the file in question was a symlink. Would that cause this kind of problem? If so, how do I/admin fix or bypass it?

Is it possible to check out just a part of a perforce repo rather than the whole thing?

Answer 1

I suggest that you have someone check that the Perforce repository is actually in a sane state. There might be something broken which you triggered and the data of your company might be at stake, so someone should definitely look what is causing the problem.

Answer 2

The issue is with symlinks that are not supported out on Windows.

This is fixed in the current version of Perfarce, which should appear in TortoiseHG soon.