Re: incorrect working revision for the mercurial VC backend

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> 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".