diff --git a/mercurial/changegroup.py b/mercurial/changegroup.py
--- a/mercurial/changegroup.py
+++ b/mercurial/changegroup.py
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
                 # We failed to resolve a parent for this node, so
                 # we crash the changegroup construction.
                 raise error.Abort(
-                    b'unable to resolve parent while packing %r %r'
+                    b"unable to resolve parent while packing '%s' %r"
                     b' for changeset %r' % (store.indexfile, rev, clrev)
                 )
 
diff --git a/tests/test-narrow-pull.t b/tests/test-narrow-pull.t
--- a/tests/test-narrow-pull.t
+++ b/tests/test-narrow-pull.t
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
   $ hg clone -q --narrow ssh://user@dummy/master narrow2 --include "f1" -r 0
   $ cd narrow2
   $ hg pull -q -r 1
-  remote: abort: unexpected error: unable to resolve parent while packing b'00manifest.i' 1 for changeset 0
+  remote: abort: unexpected error: unable to resolve parent while packing '00manifest.i' 1 for changeset 0
   transaction abort!
   rollback completed
   abort: pull failed on remote