# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Date 2011-10-02 18:02:15
# Node ID 6dc67dced8c122f6139ae20ccdc03a6b11e8b765
# Parent  dc360709cea92865fe5716ac75dc2fe265f1b0cb

subrepo: improve error message when svn isn't found

subprocess was returning the following unhelpful message:

 abort: No such file or directory

diff --git a/mercurial/subrepo.py b/mercurial/subrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/subrepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py
@@ -548,9 +548,13 @@ class svnsubrepo(abstractsubrepo):
         self._state = state
         self._ctx = ctx
         self._ui = ctx._repo.ui
+        self._exe = util.findexe('svn')
+        if not self._exe:
+            raise util.Abort(_("'svn' executable not found for subrepo '%s'")
+                             % self._path)
 
     def _svncommand(self, commands, filename='', failok=False):
-        cmd = ['svn']
+        cmd = [self._exe]
         extrakw = {}
         if not self._ui.interactive():
             # Making stdin be a pipe should prevent svn from behaving