> 2009/3/4 Edwin Vane <[email protected]>: >> With all the recent activity with meld, I checked out the current trunk and >> installed it. It doesn't seem to work with my mercurial repositories. I get >> this error when I click on a file: >> Invoking patch failed, you need GNU patch. >> 'patch --strip=1 --reverse --directory=/tmp/tmpSGcFED-meld' > > The message is a bit misleading because it is displayed even in > cases where the problem is not that you don't have GNU patch. > The meaning is really this "the patch given by the vc plugin cannot > be applied", and this may be for various reasons.
FYI this has happened several times in the past when vcs chop and change their patch output format. PATCH_INDEX_RE is usually the first place to look. Stephen. _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
