Re: Damaged hg repo? Where did the tags go?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/4/3 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On  3-Apr-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | Something weird is going on. If you look at the tags in .hgtags:
> |
> |      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/6ef23b4a3402/.hgtags
> |
> | And you compare them to the history of .hgtags, you'll see a bunch of
> | tags are missing. I can't even seem to show this on the web interface,
> | but on my clone, "hg log .hgtags" brings up tags like release-3-0-1
> | that aren't in .hgtags and mentions changesets that don't exist. I
> | noticed this around Thursday last week or so. Does someone have an
> | older clone that doesn't exhibit this problem?
>
> If I run "hg tags" on my local archive, I get the tags listed in
> .hgtags plus tags for release-3-4-0, ss-3-3-92, ss-3-3-91, and
> ss-3-3-90.  Looking at http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/tags
> shows these additional tags as well.  I don't know why .hgtags is
> incomplete.

Are you able to update to those tags? I get

     address@hidden:~/coding/vcs/octave$ hg up release-3-0-1
     abort: address@hidden: no node!

which certainly sounds like something's amiss.

- Jordi G. H.