RFC: Would you care if mq stopped storing patch files physically on disk?

[Christian Boos]

Peter Hosey wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2009, at 23:53:10, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>> So, are you using the fact that mq stores the patch files physically 
>> on disk in your workflows? If so, how?
>
> I sometimes have to hand-edit the patches because mq is so finicky 
> about patches having to *exactly match* whatever's in the source code. 
> I would welcome a real solution to that problem.

Try apply the .rej file via wiggle  [1].

Now if hg would by itself fallback to word level merges when a chunk 
fails to apply, that would be excellent ;-)

-- Christian

[1] - http://neil.brown.name/git?p=wiggle;a=summary