Character escapes in Bazaar configuration URLs (was: bzr 1.17 released!)

[Ben Finney]

Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:

> 2009/7/21 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
> > Jonathan Lange <jml at mumak.net> writes:
> >> * Tildes are no longer escaped by Transports. (Andy Kilner)
> >
> > Does this apply retroactively to URLs in existing branches? That is,
> > will a branch that already recorded a URL with a tilde before 1.17
> > continue to show the tilde escaped using 1.17?
> 
> From memory I think the change is in how we show URLs. So if you have
> an already-working config that was just showing the URL escaped, it'll
> now change to not do so.

Researching what I was talking about some more, it turns out that the
URLs get stored (in ‘.bzr/branch/branch.conf’) with percent-escaping in
the configuration::

    bound_location = http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Efoo/%2Bjunk/bar/

I was hoping that the storage (from previous versions) was unescaped::

    bound_location = http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~foo/+junk/bar/

but apparently not.

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