hg convert not actually converting?

Question

I run the following hg command and see a whole bunch of revision numbers & their messages fly past my screen, but when it finishes the destination hg repository is empty.

hg convert -s p4 //depot/proj1/... c:\hg\proj1 --config convert.p4.startrev=1267

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It turned out my Perforce database had a bit of corruption in very early changesets. Once I told the convert extension to start at a later change set, the conversion went without a hitch.

Answer 2

When in doubt, use the summary command. You'll probably see something like this:

$ hg sum
parent: -1:000000000000  (no revision checked out)
branch: default
commit: (clean)
update: 15225 new changesets (update)

This says "nothing checked out, on the default branch, nothing to commit, 15225 changesets if you update".

An empty repo looks like this:

$ hg sum
parent: -1:000000000000 tip (empty repository)
branch: default
commit: (clean)
update: (current)

Answer 3

The repository is not empty. There should be an empty directory, .hg, which contains the whole history of your project.

If you want to see the state of your repo at the latest revision, you can update your local copy with hg update.