From ce5d0e22fc307a22bf8410dbdd6b4f0190f36fab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:30:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Set subversion version identification to empty strings if
 this is not a subversion checkout (but a mercurial one). Closes #11579.
 Closes #11421. Patch by Senthil Kumaran.

---
 Python/sysmodule.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 4598a3ce747..eb548b4f857 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -978,8 +978,13 @@ svnversion_init(void)
 		return;
 
 	python = strstr(headurl, "/python/");
-	if (!python)
-		Py_FatalError("subversion keywords missing");
+	if (!python) {
+		*patchlevel_revision = '\0';
+		strcpy(branch, "");
+		strcpy(shortbranch, "unknown");
+		svn_revision = "";
+		return;
+	}
 
 	br_start = python + 8;
 	br_end = strchr(br_start, '/');