[issue817] hgmerge: --help option gives a message that ends strangely

[Vincent Danjean]

New submission from Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>:

Hi,

  Here is a Debian bug (#443428, http://bugs.debian.org/443428 )
In the Debian package, I applied the patch in attachment that check
that hgmerge has 3 arguments. You might want to apply similar patch
upstream or a better patch that does more checks (check arguments are
correct filenames, ...) or that print a better error message.

  Best regards
    Vincent

Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> Package: mercurial
> Version: 0.9.4-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The last 3 lines of the output of hgmerge --help are
> 
> Report bugs to <bug-coreutils at gnu.org>.
> cp: unrecognized option `--help.orig.238627774'
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> 
> Similar issue with a french locale. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.6.1-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-support                0.6.4      automated rebuilding support for p
> ii  python2.5                     2.5.1-5    An interactive high-level object-o
> 
> Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
> pn  kdiff3 | tkdiff | rcs         <none>     (no description available)
> ii  tk8.4 [wish]                  8.4.15-2   Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
>

----------
files: proposed_upstream__check_hgmerge_args.patch
messages: 4256
nosy: 443428, vdanjean
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hgmerge: --help option gives a message that ends strangely

____________________________________________________
Mercurial issue tracker <mercurial-bugs at selenic.com>
<http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue817>
____________________________________________________
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: proposed_upstream__check_hgmerge_args.patch
Type: text/x-diff
Size: 438 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/attachments/20071102/9932db23/attachment.patch