patch on freebsd

[Will Maier]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:33:09PM -0700, Brad Schick wrote:
> I have mercurial 0.9.4 installed in a local account on FreeBSD
> 6.2-RELEASE. So far it works except for patch. Anyone know the
> trick for making hg happy with freebsd's patch?

I spent some time trying to make Mercurial like OpenBSD's patch(1),
but I really recommend running crew instead. mpatch, the (very nice)
Python patch implementation, has been included in crew for a few
weeks now, and it works wonderfully. Since its inclusion, all tests
(including debuginstall) pass on OpenBSD.

crew[0] is generally stable; I haven't had any problems in
day-to-day use in a long time.

[0] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/CrewRepository

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