mpatch.mpatchError: patch cannot be decoded

[Dj Gilcrease]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Matt Mackall<mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> [be sure to keep the list cc: to the list if you want me to respond]
>
> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 17:32 -0600, Dj Gilcrease wrote:
>> Ok I have done a little more testing, and when I create the repo from
>> scratch on my Ubuntu box I am able to pull/update with no issues
>
> Please tell us more about your setup. What Linux kernel version? CIFS or
> SMB? Virus scanners? Virtualization tools? Etc.

I am running Ubuntu in VirtualBox, and I was using VirtualBox's
built-in Shared Folder feature. The drive I was sharing was formated
as NTFS so I thought this might be the issues and reformatted it as
Fat32 with the same results.

Then I decided it was the Shared Folder feature causing issues and
just shared the directory out to the network and did
sudo mount -t cifs //10.91.0.21/OpenRPG ~/mnt/OpenRPG -o
username=***,password=***,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

This was an improvement, since it would not corrupt the repository it
would just throw a permission denied error unless I executed all hg
commands as root (or sudo). This made no sense to me since when I
checked the permissions of all files/folders it was 777 like it should
have been and no other app had issues creating/modifying files.

So I gave up on sharing like that and just cloned the repositories
from my central location, though it is a bit of a PITA to need to use
that to send changes around when I am working on an issues that
affects multiple platforms I generaly prefer to just use a cloned
branch to do all my work and testing in before I push it to the
central location