[Python-apps-team] Bug#908902: mercurial: hg commit -m 'my updates' (goes awry due to space in message)

[Julien Cristau]

Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible

On 09/15/2018 07:33 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> Package: mercurial
> Version: 4.7.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The bash command line:
> % hg commit -m 'my updates'
> 
> results in:
> abort: 2017_original/180914_updates/updates: No such file or directory
> 
> ... which is true, there is no such file or directory.  However, I
> wasn't trying to commit any such file.  I was trying to do a general
> commit with the commit message "my updates".
> 
> It worked as expected only when I removed the space from the message:
> % hg commit -m 'my_updates'.
> 
Works for me:

jcristau at tomate:/tmp$ hg init hgtest
jcristau at tomate:/tmp$ cd hgtest/
jcristau at tomate:/tmp/hgtest$ touch a
jcristau at tomate:/tmp/hgtest$ hg addremove
adding a
jcristau at tomate:/tmp/hgtest$ hg commit -m 'my updates'
jcristau at tomate:/tmp/hgtest$ hg log
changeset:   0:b06b9ef0091d
tag:         tip
user:        Julien Cristau <jcristau at mozilla.com>
date:        Tue Oct 02 10:41:09 2018 +0200
summary:     my updates

You may want to check your extensions or something else in your setup
that might be messing this up.

Cheers,
Julien