I received a patch, made with darcs 2.x against a darcs 2 repo, which I can't
apply. http://paste.lisp.org/display/74454/raw shows the patch. 

The error message is "darcs failed:  Malformed patch bundle:
'[rating_plone3_1_7.patch' is not 'Context:'". 

darcs was able to apply the patch when I removed the third and subsequent lines
within the brackets after New patches: (and therefore removed the patch hash at
the end). Ie the edited patch looked like::

 New patches:

 [rating_plone3_1_7.patch
 Juan M. Méndez <vejeta@gmail.com>**20090128164524
 ] hunk ./plugins/rating/rating.py 96
 etc.

I don't know if this is related to issue661, issue1255 etc.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:58:23 -0000, Simon Michael wrote:
>  Juan M. Méndez <vejeta@gmail.com>**20090128164524

Sounds like it's encodings related, somebody somewhere thinking that a
UTF-8 encoded document is in ISO-8859-{1,15}

I thought the same, but converting the patch to ascii made no  
difference; removing the three lines is what made it apply.

Updating the subject and priority of this, I think darcs apply basically fails
to parse a patch bundle containing a patch with a long description.

Happily this is not (directly) a darcs issue. The patch bundle was indeed
corrupted: some indentation had been removed. 

Apple Mail displays patch bundles without the indentation (and it's only a
little indentation, so you might not notice.) So copying from the message pane
into a dpatch file doesn't work. This is a problem for Mail users, as I can't
see any other way for them to extract a darcs patch received by mail. Viewing
the message source is no good, because it's quoted-printable-encoded. But that's
a separate issue.

Nb, only some indentation is removed. In particular, the single space  
indent in patch headers, between [ and ].

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 23:32:02 -0000, Simon Michael wrote:
> Apple Mail displays patch bundles without the indentation (and it's only a
> little indentation, so you might not notice.) So copying from the message pane
> into a dpatch file doesn't work. This is a problem for Mail users, as I can't
> see any other way for them to extract a darcs patch received by mail. Viewing
> the message source is no good, because it's quoted-printable-encoded. But that's
> a separate issue.

FAQ-worthy?

It might be nice to be more robust about whitespace between the brackets. 
I've changed priority to wishlist.

Simon, please file a new ticket for the separate wishlist feature 
request and reference this one.

BTS training: it's not always easy to tell if you should keep things on 
the same ticket (because you're fundamentally tracking the same thing), 
or because you're talking about separate issues.  Here I've basically 
made a snap decision that the failure to apply from Apple mail copy and 
paste is separate from the robust handling of whitespace (on reflection, 
I guess since the latter is a more general issue which causes the 
former).  Such snap decisions may end up being wrong, but what else are 
you going to do, oh Future Issue Manager, deliberate?  Gotta have high 
throughput.