Mac OS 10.13.3 Clone Repo get "illegal byte sequence"

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to clone a repo on Mac OS 10.13.3 (HG 4.5.2) and I'm getting error "illegal byte sequence" on one of the file when it try to "hg update" to latest commit.  The issue is with file name contain a special character.

I tried this on Mac OS 10.12.4 with HG 4.5.2 and I don't get this issue at all.

Had anyone have this issue before?  What is your fix beside renaming the file in the repo.

Thanks,

Juan Pablo Gardella · Answer

It's a mercurial issue https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5762

RomeoQNgo · Answer

@Emanuel Alvaredo. This is a really weird issue.  It only happen on one Windows Azure VM.  The repo works fine everywhere else.

I duplicate the repo to a new BitBucket repo and was able to download on the same Azure VM and it works fine.

Then I make a space commit on the original repo and it still has the issue.

So I stripped the latest commit and then recommit with the same files change (just a merge to the default from another branch).  This time it works fine.

So the issue is not with the file changes but something in the commits.  The commit comment is the same.

Since this is a one off happening on one random Machine, I just let treat it as a hiccup.  If this occurs again, then it is definitely worth look into.

I hope this helps.  Good Luck with your issue.

Emanuel Alvaredo · Answer

Hello @RomeoQNgo, I have the same issue, could you solve this issue?