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rodee
rodee

Reputation: 3171

How to escape whitespace in Gerrit push topic?

git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master%topic='test topic'

This fails with error fatal: remote part of refspec is not a valid name in HEAD:refs/for/master%topic=test topic

I tried %topic='\"test\ topic\"', %topic='test\ topic' but it didn't work, problem is the whitespace, it supports %topic='test_topic'

How do I escape the whitespace?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 446

Answers (2)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94755

Try

git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master -o topic='test topic'

See https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/3.0.4/intro-user.html#topics

Upvotes: 2

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 532053

There's no such thing as a "topic" in Git. You are just using some conventions to embed metadata about the branch in its name. See man git-check-ref-format for information about what characters are permitted in a branch name. Most relevant is rule 4:

  1. They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose values are lower than \040, or \177 DEL), space, tilde ~, caret ^, or colon : anywhere.

Upvotes: 0

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