[issue1880] # in paths.default is treated not as expected

[Maxim Vuets]

New submission from Maxim Vuets <maxim.vuets at gmail.com>:

Look at this from regular user's point of view:

tmp$ hg init origin#repo
tmp$ touch origin#repo/readme.txt
tmp$ hg -R origin#repo commit -A -m init
adding readme.txt
tmp$ hg clone origin#repo mywork
abort: repository origin not found!
tmp$ cd origin#repo
origin#repo$ hg clone . ../mywork
updating working directory
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
origin#repo$ cd ../mywork
mywork$ hg incoming
abort: repository /home/mvuets/tmp/origin not found!
mywork$ cat .hg/hgrc 
[paths]
default = /home/mvuets/tmp/origin#repo

Points:

 1. You cannot clone a repo just because its folder name contains "#".

 2. If you nevertheless got success to clone it, you cannot work with it
anymore. in/out/push/pull fails.

 3. I know that # is intended to specify a revision, but the default path
was composed automatically by hg and it was done wrongly.

 4. I don't see a reason to use syntax kinda "hg -R ~/repe#revision push",
right?

 5. I didn't find a way even to make some workaround, because cannot escape
"#": neither origin%23repo nor origin%%23 does not work.

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messages: 10813
nosy: mvuets
priority: bug
status: unread
title: # in paths.default is treated not as expected

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