Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version...

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:17:46 -0700, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
> 
> Chiming in on the discussion about what to do about escaped file names 
> with some naive examples of my trying to start an archive with a bunch 
> of files from a customers website with some weird naming, spaces, etc.
> 
> tla init-tree --nested website--dev--1.0
> 
> tla add *
> 
> tla tree-lint
> These files would be source but lack inventory ids (`tla add' or a 
> tagline perhaps?):
> 
> _private/watermtproof3.jpg
> _vti_cnf/0307c_b1.gif
> _vti_cnf/0307c_l1.gif
> _vti_cnf/0307c_l2.gif
> _vti_cnf/0602c_i1.gif
> .
> .lots of files omitted
> .
> dfrontpagehums/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)contest.html
> dfrontpagehums/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)order.html
> dfrontpagehums/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)pc\(sp)hardware.html
> 
> Ok, so I figure I'll just feed the output of tree-lint to add.
> 
> [tibook:~/Documents/h2omt/tlawebsite] pierce% tla add `tla tree-lint -t`
> [tibook:~/Documents/h2omt/tlawebsite] pierce% tla tree-lint
> These files would be source but lack inventory ids (`tla add' or a 
> tagline perhaps?):
> 
> _vti_cnf/horizontal\(sp)line2.gif
> _vti_cnf/sticky\(sp)rat\(sp)issue\(sp)button.gif
> _vti_pvt/_vti_cnf/_x_todo.htm
> _vti_pvt/_vti_cnf/_x_todoh.htm
> dfrontpagehums/_vti_cnf/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)contest.html
> dfrontpagehums/_vti_cnf/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)order.html
> dfrontpagehums/_vti_cnf/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)pc\(sp)hardware.html
> dfrontpagehums/_vti_cnf/hum\(sp)salat\(sp)pc\(sp)software.html
> 
> These explicit ids have no corresponding file:
> 
> _vti_cnf/.arch-ids/horizontal\\(sp)line2.gif.id
> _vti_cnf/.arch-ids/sticky\\(sp)rat\\(sp)issue\\(sp)button.gif.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)contest.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)order.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)pc\\(sp)hardware.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)pc\\(sp)software.html.id
> 
> Hmmm.... Looks liked it tried to add the files after escaping the 
> escape? Well, lets see if I can use tree lint to remove them:
> 
> [tibook:~/Documents/h2omt/tlawebsite] pierce% tla tree-lint -m
> _vti_cnf/.arch-ids/horizontal\\(sp)line2.gif.id
> _vti_cnf/.arch-ids/sticky\\(sp)rat\\(sp)issue\\(sp)button.gif.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)contest.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)order.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)pc\\(sp)hardware.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)pc\\(sp)software.html.id
> importedweb/.arch-ids/horizontal\\(sp)line2.gif.id
> importedweb/.arch-ids/sticky\\(sp)rat\\(sp)issue\\(sp)button.gif.id
> 
> Maybe I need unescaped?
> 
> [tibook:~/Documents/h2omt/tlawebsite] pierce% tla tree-lint -m 
> --unescaped
> _vti_cnf/.arch-ids/horizontal\\(sp)line2.gif.id
> _vti_cnf/.arch-ids/sticky\\(sp)rat\\(sp)issue\\(sp)button.gif.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)contest.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)order.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)pc\\(sp)hardware.html.id
> dfrontpagehums/.arch-ids/hum\\(sp)salat\\(sp)pc\\(sp)software.html.id
> importedweb/.arch-ids/horizontal\\(sp)line2.gif.id
> importedweb/.arch-ids/sticky\\(sp)rat\\(sp)issue\\(sp)button.gif.id
> 
> No, that looks the same.
> 
> Does that help? I'm guessing my first mistake was I should have used:
> 
> tla add `tla tree-lint -t --unescaped`

No, because the backquote would mess it up anyway.

It needs to be fixed the other way round --
tla add --escaped `tla tree-lint -t`

And in addition, tla add should not add a non-existent file, so it
wouldn't create those nonsential files.

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