tests: raise a better error when patterns are wrongly formatted
It is fairly easy to make mistakes when merging conflict in the pattern file.
A common mistake is to forget adding an extra trailing comma changing the
length of the tuple.
We now detect such error and raise a better error message that helps to find
it.
#require symlink
$ origdir=`pwd`
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ ln -s nothing dangling
avoid tar warnings about old timestamp
$ hg ci -d '2000-01-01 00:00:00 +0000' -qAm 'add symlink'
$ hg archive -t files ../archive
$ hg archive -t tar -p tar ../archive.tar
$ hg archive -t zip -p zip ../archive.zip
files
$ cd "$origdir"
$ cd archive
$ readlink.py dangling
dangling -> nothing
tar
$ cd "$origdir"
$ tar xf archive.tar
$ cd tar
$ readlink.py dangling
dangling -> nothing
#if unziplinks
zip
$ cd "$origdir"
$ unzip archive.zip > /dev/null 2>&1
$ cd zip
$ readlink.py dangling
dangling -> nothing
#endif
$ cd ..