Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone tests failing under Debian automated building

[Ludovic Brenta]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:04:13 +0100, Francis Russell wrote:
> > To me, it looks like monotone is copying test databases to a 
> > specific
> > location for a test, then apparently finding the files missing. I 
> > can't
> > replicate this in a Debian unstable chroot, nor can I imagine in the
> > automated build environment could cause the tests to fail in this 
> > way.
>
> Ha, I've found it! monotone appears to be rewriting pluses to spaces
> in its URLs:
>
> Simple example:
>
> $ cd /tmp/
> $ mtn db init -d mtn.db
> $ mtn db init -d mtn+2.db
> $ mtn pull -d mtn.db "file:///tmp/mtn+2.db?*"
> mtn: doing anonymous pull; use -kKEYNAME if you need authentication
> mtn: connecting to 'file:/tmp/mtn 2.db'
> mtn:   include pattern  '*'
> mtn:   exclude pattern  ''
> mtn: misuse: database '/tmp/mtn 2.db' does not exist

The plus sign must be percent-encoded as %2B in the URI:

mtn pull -d mtn.db "file:///tmp/mtn%2B2.db?*"

--
Ludovic Brenta.