Re: incorrect working revision for the mercurial VC backend

[Alex Harsanyi <alexharsanyi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:15:05 +0800
>> From: Alex Harsanyi <alexharsanyi@gmail.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
>> > [please cc the mailing list]
>> >
>> >  > I haven't switched yet to bzr, so I cannot pull the change, however
>> >  > the patch corresponds to my local fix, except that the last line
>> >  > reads:
>> >
>> > But you could apply the patch to your working copy.
>>
>> I could not apply it. If I copy-paste it out of the email, patch rejects it:
>>
>> $ patch -p1 < vc-hg.patch
>> patching file vc-hg.el
>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 209.
>> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file vc-hg.el.rej
>>
>> When I try to apply it from Emacs, it asks me first if I want to fix
>> word-wrap damage, but after I say yes, it fails anyway... Sorry but
>> I'm not sure what is wrong.
>
> Perhaps try "patch --ignore-whitespace".
>

That worked, thanks.

BTW, I did use the latest CVS version, and I do plan to switch to bzr,
except I will only have the time in a few weeks time

Cheers,
Alex.