[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#524961: Bug#524961: bash-completion: Tab completion of svk command line forgets to escape filenames

[David Paleino]

tags 514961 confirmed pending patch
thanks

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:16:50 +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote:

> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 1:1.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,

Hello,

> Try this:
> 
> touch "filename with spaces"
> svk add filen<TAB>
> 
> The completion I get is "svk add filename with spaces". Note that the
> completion does not escape the spaces in the filename. When you try to run
> the command, svk looks for the files "filename", "with", and "spaces" and,
> of course, fails.

This was a bug in svk completion. Fixed in git 7c023ab.

> You should expect the completion to be "svk add filename\ with\ spaces" like
> everything else.

If you can't wait for the new release :), please change $default with
$filenames in /etc/bash_completion.d/svk (and re-login)

Kindly,
David

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