Re: [PATCH 1/2] am: preliminary support for hg patches

Giuseppe Bilotta [off-list ref] writes:

... This is
correctly detected by -3, with

Applying: Threeway test
fatal: sha1 information is lacking or useless (dir.h).
Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
Patch failed at 0001 Threeway test

The message is a bit misleading (it's not the repo lacking the blobs,
it's the patch missing the information), but the process fails as
expected.

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What about renaming patches?

They lack similarity indices, but they seem to be properly formated
(and the simple cases I tested apply correctly).

These were exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks for experimenting.

So I think that keeping the --git is the right choice.

Yeah, sounds like we are safe and better off keeping it.

Heya,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 19:02, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

These were exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks for experimenting.

And thanks for working on this, Giuseppe!

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier