[darcs-users] WinXP filenames with spaces

Will will at glozer.net
Thu Jan 27 05:01:44 UTC 2005


adl at absentis.com (Andrew Lawson) writes:

> Hello
>     I've run across a problem with darcs on WinXP. I'm using the putty
> tools and darcs push (to a linux server) fails with a 'cannot find the
> file specified' error which i suspect is coming from psftp or pscp. More
> interestingly this only occurs when the repository itself is under a
> directory with spaces in the file path, in this case c:/Documents and
> Settings/... Could it be that darcs is not escaping or quoting the paths
> it passes to external programs?

This is exactly the problem, as also noticed by Joachim Worringen.
I've sent in a patch to quote the arguments and it is also applied to
today's daily build available at http://glozer.net/darcs/daily/

Regards,
Will




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