# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Date 1306875323 18000
# Node ID 4582a4dd1817a335f7c932890af28c5ae2c61acb
# Parent  973959fbe8ec84ef572eba8ab3f8d54c1e3e6808
requires: note apparent corruption

diff -r 973959fbe8ec -r 4582a4dd1817 mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py	Tue May 31 19:16:25 2011 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py	Tue May 31 15:55:23 2011 -0500
@@ -698,6 +698,8 @@
     requirements = set(opener.read("requires").splitlines())
     for r in requirements:
         if r not in supported:
+            if not r or not r[0].isalnum():
+                raise error.RequirementError(_(".hg/requires file is corrupt"))
             raise error.RequirementError(_("unknown repository format: "
                 "requires feature '%s' (upgrade Mercurial)") % r)
     return requirements