[PATCH clowncopter] commit: adjust the quoting in the examples to be Windows friendly

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Sat Dec 5 23:06:35 CST 2015



On 12/05/2015 08:54 PM, Matt Harbison wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 23:47:30 -0500, Pierre-Yves David
> <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 12/05/2015 08:23 PM, Matt Harbison wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison at yahoo.com>
>>> # Date 1449371988 18000
>>> #      Sat Dec 05 22:19:48 2015 -0500
>>> # Node ID 8f7a64c53d0ebb9717c8e011f753c182e29b2320
>>> # Parent  4af56d6452d5127db44bf946b5053582e16e49ba
>>> commit: adjust the quoting in the examples to be Windows friendly
>>>
>>> We should probably avoid strong quotes around command line args in
>>> the examples,
>>> since cmd.exe doesn't recognize them, and it will surprise a user who
>>> cargo
>>> cults them.  I don't see a way to make a rule for this, since strong
>>> quoting is
>>> OK inside command line args, like within revsets.
>>
>> woops, pushed to the clowncopter.
>
> Is there a reasonable way to put in a rule for this?  I only noticed
> this because there's a test-gendoc failure associated with this new
> block of help (specifically the 'set:**.py' line).  I didn't
> exhaustively review everything else.  There seems to be a recent push to
> add examples to help, so it could be useful.

I do not see and obvious way to catch that. Do we have something to 
catch that in test? we could port it to help (maybe).



-- 
Pierre-Yves David


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