Re: [Monotone-devel] sync file-to-file problem

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:21:28PM -0600, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:14 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:03:04PM +0100, mariusz moleda wrote:
> > >    I have a problem with synchronization between two databases. I make the
> > >    same projects in work and in home on windows xp sp2. and I cannot
> > >    synchronize my work and home db.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to make these databases available to the
> > developers, to see if we can track down the problem?  AFAIK other
> > people have not been having this problem, so I'm not sure how to find
> > it otherwise.
> 
> get_netsync_connect_command() has a "quote_patterns" that is only set
> when using ssh:// ; the comments say it's to keep the remote shell from
> doing expansion. But, IIRC on Windows the expansion is done inside
> Monotone itself. So, we want to also set that for file:// syncs on
> Windows only. Also, we use '\'' for the quote character, which will
> result in the '\'' characters still being part of the processed
> argument; I think we need '"' quotes for them to get stripped (on
> Windows only, again).

That sounds plausible.  ...Do we just have no tests that do
file-to-file syncs with branch wildcards?

-- Nathaniel

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