extmerge

[Larry Drews]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote in
news:87ocn3cyzq.fsf at telefonica.net: 

> Larry Drews <ldrewsNOSPAM at thesoftwareronin.com> writes:
> 
>> 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
> 
> What happens if you install the external merge tool on a directory
> with no embbeded white spaces? (something like c:\bcomp3)
> 
> If this still fails, try using normal slashes instead of backslashes
> as path separators (but keep avoiding white spaces on pathnames)
> 
> [snip]
> 

Thanks for the suggestion, but moving to C:\bc3 didn't improve the 
situation.  I still don't know what it is objecting to.

Regards,

Larry Drews
TheSoftwareRonin