i am trying to start looking into Mozilla firefox source code for contributing, and the instructions at
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Simple_Firefox_build
tell me to execute this command
Get the latest source code from Mozilla's Mercurial code repository. This may take a while, it's a lot of code!
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
so i downloaded hg, which was tortoiseHG for windows, and executed this command, but i am constantly getting this error :
D:\mozilla-src>hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
destination directory: mozilla-central
requesting all changes
adding changesets
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: 00changelog.i@dfd87cee87f2: unknown parent!
please help me
As @Pheonix mentioned, this is a server-side known issue that we hope to have wrapped up today.
@WladimirPalant status.mozilla.com is an automated tool watching for various returns, mostly HTTP codes and such. In this case it doesn't know about hg errors.
also, this only happens with newer hg on the client side (as our recent hg upgrade provides new capabilities that aren't quite working through the stack)