Re: [fossil-users] clone a repository over ssh where the path includes whitespace characters
On 2019-08-08 08:25:30, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Stephan Beal on Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:06:30 +0200: > > > fossil clone 'ssh://user@domain://path/to/"directory with > > spaces"/my.fossil' my.fossil > > Yes, that works, but it's a hack really because ... Its behaviour is consistent with other network services whom you give a single argument with spaces to find on the other host. E.g., scp, rsync all require the same dance. Insofar it's just consistent, and, I would argue, meets user expectations/experience. Regards, -Martin ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] clone a repository over ssh where the path includes whitespace characters
Thus said Stephan Beal on Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:06:30 +0200: > fossil clone 'ssh://user@domain://path/to/"directory with > spaces"/my.fossil' my.fossil Yes, that works, but it's a hack really because the user has to know that Fossil is using /bin/sh instead of simply calling exec() with appropriate arguments. In my opinion, Fossil really should not be using execl with /bin/sh here: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/artifact?udc=1=203=036510c48cbc9212 Instead, I think it would be preferable to do something like: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/info/ce7baa9798de21aa Otherwise, Fossil will have to be enhanced to start quoting things shell-style so the user doesn't have to worry about anything more than quoting it in his shell. In other words, what Poor Yorick did by quoting the entire string should have been sufficient, but what he didn't know was that another level of quotes was needed because Fossil is going to pass it to another /bin/sh interpreter will will require additional quoting---surprise. Thanks, Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 40005d4c30ff ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] clone a repository over ssh where the path includes whitespace characters
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:20 AM Poor Yorick wrote: > > Hello, > > Attempting to clone a repository over ssh where the path contains whitespace > characters: > > fossil clone 'ssh://user@domain://path/to/directory with spaces/my.fossil' my.fossil > > Various attempts, including percent or plus encoding, all fail. Is there some > incantation that works? This mailing list isn't used any more. The current support forum is: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/ That said, i'm going to take a wild guess as to a workaround: fossil clone 'ssh://user@domain://path/to/"directory with spaces"/my.fossil' my.fossil (Note the extra quotes.) i've no idea if that will really work, though. -- - stephan beal https://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] clone a repository over ssh where the path includes whitespace characters
Hello, Attempting to clone a repository over ssh where the path contains whitespace characters: fossil clone 'ssh://user@domain://path/to/directory with spaces/my.fossil' my.fossil Various attempts, including percent or plus encoding, all fail. Is there some incantation that works? -- Poor Yorick ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
