Escaping characters for hg update?

[Augie Fackler]

On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:41 PM, v <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> hg 2.3.1 on Windows 7 x64
> 
> I just tried again with all extensions disabled, and get this:
> 
> hg init foo
> cd foo
> 
> hg branch "a a"
> marked working directory as branch a a
> (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
> 
> hg up "a a"
> hg: parse error at 2: invalid token

hg up '"a a"' # the outer ' quotes for the shell, the inner " quotes for the revset parser

Similar tricks should work for all these cases.

> 
> hg branch "a,a"
> marked working directory as branch a,a
> (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
> 
> hg up "a,a"
> hg: parse error: can't use a list in this context
> 
> hg branch "a:a"
> marked working directory as branch a:a
> (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
> 
> hg up "a:a"
> abort: unknown revision 'a'!
> 
> 
> 
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