[cvsnt] Re: tag.c question

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 00:35:05 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:


>Does this mean that the first space character found will stop the
>parsing of the filter program? In that case a construct like this in
>the taginfo file will not work:
>DEFAULT "C:\Program Files\CVSNT\Filterprogram.exe" $USER $CVSROOT
>because the quotes are not handled and the spacey path breaks the
>functionality....
>So my motto: 'don't use spaces in paths in connection with CVS' seems
>to hold.

There's lots of code like this all over cvs..  That particular chunk
was copied/pasted from the commitinfo routine (the taginfo routine
originally had similar code that was unix specific).   In this case
you can get around it by putting filterprogram.exe in the path.

Tony