Escaping characters for hg update?

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Sun Nov 18 21:21:24 UTC 2012


On 18 Nov 2012, at 1:53 PM, v wrote:

> Augie Fackler-2 wrote
>> hg up '"a a"' # the outer ' quotes for the shell, the inner " quotes for
>> the revset parser
> 
> Thanks, that works great. Why is it needed for update but not branch?


'branch' takes a branch name, 'update' takes an arbitrary revset.

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