extmerge

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Larry Drews wrote:
> I have just spent a frustrating 4 hours trying to set up Beyond Compare 3 
> as the external merge tool for Bazaar (latest stable release).
> 
> external_merge = '"C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare3\BComp.exe /fv " %r %b %
> t %o'
> 
> This doesn't work.  Keeps giving the error message: 
> 
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd \las\l10
> 
> C:\LAS\L10>bzr extmerge --all
> bzr: ERROR: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label 
> syntax is
> incorrect
> 
> C:\LAS\L10>
> 
> Unfortunately bzr doesn't tell me anything about what is wrong.  It doesn't 
> even show me what it thinks it is processing.  Can you tell that I am 
> frustrated!
> 
> Help!
> 
> Regards,

My best guess is that there is a problem with quoting and spaces.
Looking at the above string:

"C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare3\BComp.exe /fv " %r %b %t %o'

With this mix, you have some arguments inside the quotes and some
outside. My guess is that the above string will cause bzr to try to
start a program named "BComp.exe /fv " which is both not a valid file
(trailing spaces aren't allowed) and certainly not what you want. I
would try first:

"C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare3\BComp.exe" /fv %r %b %t %o

However, there are other possible issues:

1) Try forward slashes:
"C:/Program Files/Beyond Compare3/BComp.exe"

2) Try filenames that don't have spaces. Something like:
C:\Progra~1\Beyond~1\BComp.exe /fv %r %b %t %o

etc.

John
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