can't clone hg repo of vim editor

[MilanV]

I installed gitifyhg (on Debian squeeze) and tried to clone vim repository. It did not pass and I do not understand which error message is the significant one. Thanks for help.

milan@prcek:~$ git --version git version 1.7.2.5

milan@prcek:~$ DEBUG_GITIFYHG=2 git clone gitifyhg::https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim Cloning into vim... DEBUG: 'gitifyhg version 0.8.2' DEBUG: 'Mercurial version 2.6.1' DEBUG: 'Python version 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5]' warning: vim.googlecode.com certificate with fingerprint ac:4b:54:aa:d3:1a:22:f8:9a:e2:3e:d1:91:6e:6e:13:23:a0:96:b1 not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting) DEBUG: 'INPUT: capabilities' DEBUG: 'OUT: import' DEBUG: 'OUT: export' DEBUG: 'OUT: refspec refs/heads/branches/:refs/hg/origin/branches/' DEBUG: 'OUT: refspec refs/heads/:refs/hg/origin/bookmarks/' DEBUG: 'OUT: refspec refs/tags/:refs/hg/origin/tags/' DEBUG: 'OUT: *export-marks /home/milan/vim/.git/hg/1ed3aa7e002a8824a275c5616fc765632422025e/marks-git' DEBUG: 'OUT: ' fatal: Unknown mandatory capability export-marks /home/milan/vim/.git/hg/1ed3aa7e002a8824a275c5616fc765632422025e/marks-git. This remote helper probably needs newer version of Git.

DEBUG: 'INPUT: ' ERROR: 'The marks file has been removed. This usually suggests that a git clone operation failed. To debug, set environment variable DEBUG_GITIFYHG and rerun. ' ERROR: 'Error updating marks.'

[PaulPrice]

Works for me with git 1.8.1.1. I suggest the first thing you should do is update your version of git.

price@paul-price:~/temp $ git clone gitifyhg::https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
Cloning into 'vim'...
warning: vim.googlecode.com certificate with fingerprint ac:4b:54:aa:d3:1a:22:f8:9a:e2:3e:d1:91:6e:6e:13:23:a0:96:b1 not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting)
progress revision 99 'master' (100/4523)
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[fingolfin]

Yeah, you need a newer version of git. Hence the error message contains this: "This remote helper probably needs newer version of Git."

[felipec]

I don't see why this is still open.