If the name contains double quotes, neither version seems to work.
I'm afraid I don't know a way around this - is there a simple way to
turn a filename into a fully-escaped version?
gav.
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:37 -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:
> This seems like a reasonable thing to do, but what happens if the
> repository name also contains double-quotes?
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Gavin Band wrote:
>
> > Dear list,
> > Sorry if this is the wrong place for this.
> > On my linux machine I had to modify line 97 of hot-backup.py from
> >
> > infile, outfile, errfile = os.popen3(svnlook + " youngest " + repo_dir)
> >
> > to
> >
> > infile, outfile, errfile = os.popen3(svnlook + " youngest \"" + repo_dir
> > + "\"")
> >
> > (should be one line) because the path to my repository contains whitespace.
> >
> > An example of the problem:
> >
> > $ cd \tmp
> > $ mkdir "A Directory"
> > $ svnadmin create "A Directory/repos"
> > $ hot-backup.py "A Directory/repos" /tmp
> > Keeping up to 64 around.
> > Beginning hot backup of 'A Directory/repos/'.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/bin/svn-hot-backup", line 105, in ?
> > youngest = string.strip(stdout_lines[0])
> > IndexError: list index out of range
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