Dear Guix hackers,

Am 27.09.2013 21:20, schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> The patch is in git diff format with commit message, so I hope you can
>> apply it.
> 
> The patch is not in ‘git format-patch’ format, which makes it more
> tedious for us to deal with it.
> 
> I understand Git may not be your favorite VCS, but we’d be grateful if
> you could facilitate our work.

I could push it to a git-repo from which you can pull.

I tried using git format-patch but I just gave up in frustration when I
could not find out how to take out files when amending a commit.

--snip more git frustration which cost me ~15 minutes right now--

The only ways I intend to work with git are via emacs vc-mode or via
hg-git. So either you can take non-amended series of commits with
repeated corrections (emacs vc-mode), you can take regular diffs or you
pull from a git-repo (hg-git). Or I have to give up on contributing,
because I don’t want to hurt my brain any more with the git cli.

> I tried building it and it fails:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> starting phase `build'
> running "python setup.py" with command "build" and parameters ()
> setup.py with python3 needs --c2to3 (experimental)
> phase `build' failed after 1 seconds
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Presumably Mercurial uses a different build system different from
> “python setup.py”, no?

Ah, that looks like it’s a python3 issue. The easy workaround would be
to just disable python3 for hg (as for the other python-vcs’).

Best wishes,
Arne
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