Escaping characters for hg update?

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 23:38 -0800, v wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote
> > ...
> > 
> > All of the above cases ARE VALID and WORK. Further, branches with spaces
> > are tested in the test suite and have been regularly tested by the
> > buildbot for quite some time. So something is wrong here on the original
> > poster's install/config.
> 
> Could it possibly make a difference that I installed thg instead of bear hg?

Not likely.

> I wouldn't know where to begin diagnosing this, although seeing as
> double-quoting works, it's not worth spending a great deal of time on.

Given that you seem to be working on extension that directly relates to
name lookup, I think it's absolutely worth diagnosing any weird
that-shouldn't-happen bugs in name lookup before proceeding.

A good place to start is 'hg --debugger'.

Also:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HackableMercurial

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