Comment 8 for bug 246880

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: reconcile failing while converting deltas to full texts

Ok, have finally tracked down exactly what is going on.

There is an inventory (don't have the revid for it yet) that refers to ('x_Matt_Zimmerman_<email address hidden>_Sun_Mar_13_00:51:19_2005_1366.38', 'Arch-1:<email address hidden>%casper--main--0--patch-21').

That revision is a ghost.

Current fetch will not copy texts that were introduced by a revision not being fetched;
this text belongs to a revision that does not exist.

I'm not sure that we should alter the inventory during reconcile; its likely a bug in fetch, but the simplest workaround for this particular branch is to convert the original history and fetch-ghosts it into colin's repository.