diff --git a/hggit/git_handler.py b/hggit/git_handler.py
index eec31dee258e9d0a04493565aab4cbab283a282d_aGdnaXQvZ2l0X2hhbmRsZXIucHk=..7ddb740ac7cc1eb8c9abe2d3ae52c217819b968a_aGdnaXQvZ2l0X2hhbmRsZXIucHk= 100644
--- a/hggit/git_handler.py
+++ b/hggit/git_handler.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
     # go through the manifest, convert all blobs/trees we don't have
     # write the commit object (with metadata info)
     def export_hg_commit(self, rev):
-        self.ui.note(_("converting revision %s\n") % rev)
+        self.ui.note(_("converting revision %s\n") % hex(rev))
 
         oldenc = self.swap_out_encoding()