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  1. Bug #544297
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Comment 2 for bug 544297

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James Troup (elmo) wrote : Re: [Bug 544297] [NEW] bzr modified adds unnecessary quotes around filenames

John A Meinel <email address hidden> writes:

> So the original motivation was to allow for command line parsers to
> work. Specifically, because of stuff like "foo bar" (a file with a
> space in it).

Except that won't work either?

| $ bzr modified
| "foo bar"
| $ bzr di $(bzr modified)
| bzr: ERROR: Path(s) are not versioned: "bar"" ""foo"
| $

Maybe I'm being dense about shells, quoting and IFS but I don't see how
the quoting bzr modified does now would help anyone/where.

> Does 'bzr di `bzr modified`' work? (I'm wondering if it handles quoting
> differently.)

No.

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James