Re: Current trunk broken for mercurial

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> 2009/3/4 Edwin Vane <revane gmail com>:
>> With all the recent activity with meld, I checked out the current trunk and
>> installed it. It doesn't seem to work with my mercurial repositories. I get
>> this error when I click on a file:
>> Invoking patch failed, you need GNU patch.
>> 'patch --strip=1 --reverse --directory=/tmp/tmpSGcFED-meld'
>
> The message is a bit misleading because it is displayed even in
> cases where the problem is not that you don't have GNU patch.
> The meaning is really this "the patch given by the vc plugin cannot
> be applied", and this may be for various reasons.

FYI this has happened several times in the past when vcs chop and
change their patch output format. PATCH_INDEX_RE is usually the
first place to look.

Stephen.