Comment 7 for bug 379106

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) wrote : Re: [Bug 379106] Re: add fails with "No such file" on win32

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:36:54AM -0000, mgm wrote:
> Per the original bug report, the file of interest in this example is
> "Q:\archive\myfile.txt". BZR is somehow cutting off the first letter of
> the path (beyond the drive letter). It certainly is quite mysterious.

The escape sequence '\a' is the ascii Bell. Could you try:

    bzr add Q:/archive/myfile.txt

instead of

    bzr add Q:\archive\myfile.txt

If that works, Windows path handling is going wrong somewhere. If it
doesn't, something else is up.

Wouter van Heyst