hi folks. I looked high and low for an official spot to submit setuptools patches but just found this mailing list. Please accept my apologies in advance if this is inconvenient. I found that when running setup.py commands on an svn checkout while having just added a directory, but not committed it yet, I would get "ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence" from around line 227 of egg_info.py. This seems easily fixable by checking the length of all_revs before handing it to max() and the patch attached solves the problem I was having. After applying the patch to the source, `python setup.py test` ran ok. thanks, Kumar