clone: source path can't contain '#'

[TK Soh]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:50 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A user of TortoiseHg has reported this, which I confirmed with recent
>> crew version of Mercurial:
>>
>>    $ hg -R crew# tip
>>    changeset:   6797:694223a29ad4
>>    tag:         tip
>>    user:        byron at base2.cc
>>    date:        Thu Jul 03 20:53:14 2008 -0700
>>    summary:     Added missing --config global option to zsh_completion.
>>
>>    $ hg clone crew# c1
>>    abort: repository crew not found!
>
> That's the branch separator, see mercurial.hg.parseurl().

Actually I saw it, but wonder if this should be considered a bug,
since '#' is a legitimate character for paths.