extmerge

[Larry Drews]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote in
news:4B00640B.9050403 at arbash-meinel.com: 

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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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Thanks for the suggestions, but those don't work either.  Same message.  
Is there anyway to tell what filename, pathname, etc. might be failing?

Regards,

Larry Drews
TheSoftwareRonin