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

[Steve Newcomb]

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'.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6             2.27-6
ii  mercurial-common  4.7.1-1
ii  python            2.7.15-3
ii  ucf               3.0038

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  openssh-client  1:7.8p1-1

Versions of packages mercurial suggests:
pn  kdiff3 | kdiff3-qt | kompare | meld | tkcvs | mgdiff  <none>
pn  qct                                                   <none>

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