Use patch.patch() when checking for patch availability.
The test is closer to what we want to know. It also makes sense when you deal with patched versions of patch() as most people do under win32.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.o
*.so
*.pyc
*.swp
*.prof
tests/.coverage*
tests/annotated
tests/*.err
build
contrib/hgsh/hgsh
dist
doc/*.[0-9]
doc/*.[0-9].gendoc.txt
doc/*.[0-9].{x,ht}ml
MANIFEST
patches
mercurial/__version__.py
.DS_Store
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^\.pc/
Output/Mercurial-[0-9.]*.exe