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.
adding bar
adding foo
adding bomb
adding a.c
adding dir/a.o
adding dir/b.o
M dir/b.o
! a.c
! dir/a.o
? .hgignore
a.c: unsupported file type (type is fifo)
! a.c
# test absolute path through symlink outside repo
A f
# try symlink outside repo to file inside
abort: ../z not under root
# try cloning symlink in a subdir
1. commit a symlink
? a/b/c/demo
adding a/b/c/demo
2. clone it
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved