hg convert using regexp in the filemap

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Tue Mar 1 07:31:20 UTC 2022


> Uwe,
> On Monday, 2022-02-28 08:15:31 +0100, you wrote:


> I haven't used "hg convert" myself since quite some time, but I found an
> old "filemap" file on one of my laptops,  which does NOT contain quotes,
> and which has worked then  (it dates from early 2014).   And "hg help -v
> convert" produced with Mercurial 5.9.2  clearly states that the argument
> following "include"  must equal "the full relative name of a file or one
> of its parent directories".  No mention of quotes there.

> Are you using  plain Mercurial or  some wrapper like Tortoise?   And are
> the "include" lines you're quoting above  really taken verbatim from the
> file specified via the "--filemap" option of "hg convert"?

I am using it from the command line. 
(either hg 5.2 or 5.5)

I run now several tests, it seems that is was wrong about the quotes. I
am really puzzled what happened when I complained, but now everything is
it is expected.

Uwe 
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