Why does MacPorts Mercurial behave differently from Windows Mercurial?

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:29, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 20, 2011, at 23:49, Russell Hanneken wrote:
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>> Interestingly, my brother tells me the FreeBSD ports collection Mercurial *does* exhibit the same problem with the merge conflict.  Is there some connection between the FreeBSD ports collection Mercurial and MacPorts Mercurial?
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> [...] perhaps this isn't a ports system issue and rather an upstream bug in Mercurial that only manifests itself on BSD-based operating systems like FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Have you contacted the Mercurial people about this?

It doesn't look like there is anything tricky going on in the
Mercurial Portfile, I'd bet on an upstream bug. It would be nice to
try the Selenic build as another data point though. I won't get a
chance for several hours in case anyone else wants to get to it first.

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