Re: Fwd: how to svn merge of filename with spaces ?

At Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:23:25 -0700 Zk W <mpc8250_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Brane
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> How about svn merging between working paths if the paths have spaces ?
> eg
>
> svn merge -c 12345 src/path to/Roaming Apple.txt /src/another path/Roaming
> Apple.txt

For local files (working paths), you just have to follow the shell's quoting
and escaping rules, eg:

svn merge -c 12345 src/path\ to/Roaming\ Apple.txt "/src/another path/Roaming Apple.txt"

man bash
man tcsh
man zsh
man ksh

etc.

>
>
> Thanks once again.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>
> > On 07.07.2015 19:58, Zk W wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > We have SVN 1.6.
> > > We like to perform a svn merge on a file where its filename has spaces.
> > > eg
> > > Roaming Apple.txt
> > >
> > > Is this syntax correct below to svn merge to a working copy ?
> > > If not, what should it be ?
> > >
> > > svn merge -c 12345 "https://mytext.abb.com/app/path/to/Roaming
> > > Apple.txt" .
> > >
> > > using quotes?
> > >
> > >
> > > Right now, we get error
> > > svn: Unable to parse URL '/svn/app/!svn/bc/12576/path/to/Roaming
> > Apple.txt
> > > using
> > > svn merge -c 12345 https://mytext.abb.com/app/path/to/Roaming Apple.txt
> > .
> > >
> > > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >
> > You have to properly escape spaces (and other special characters) in an
> > URL. See, for example,
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
> >
> > In your case, the URL would be
> >
> > https://mytext.abb.com/app/path/to/Roaming%20Apple.txt
> >
> > -- Brane
> >
>
>

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