From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Krefting Subject: Re: Escape character for .gitconfig Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:54:30 +0100 (CET) Organization: /universe/earth/europe/norway/oslo Message-ID: References: <4EEC6A9D.1060005@icefield.yk.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Erik Blake X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 21 14:05:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RdLr4-0007n7-Gk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:05:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752629Ab1LUNFG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:05:06 -0500 Received: from upper-gw.cixit.se ([92.43.32.133]:46744 "EHLO mail.cixit.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751671Ab1LUNFE (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:05:04 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 627 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:05:04 EST Received: from ds9.cixit.se (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id pBLCsVSt031360 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:54:31 +0100 Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by ds9.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id pBLCsU3d031357; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:54:31 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: ds9.cixit.se: peter owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: <4EEC6A9D.1060005@icefield.yk.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Accept: text/plain X-Warning: Junk / bulk email will be reported X-Rating: This message is not to be eaten by humans X-Greylist: Sender is SPF-compliant, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.cixit.se [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:54:31 +0100 (CET) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Erik Blake: > As you can see, I'm running git on a Win7 64 machine. Is there any way to > escape the brackets? Or do I need to reinstall notepad++ on a different path? Just use the 8.3 path instead, using either "C:/Progra~1" or "C:/Progra~2" (depending on how the system got installed). You can mix 8.3 and long paths in the same command (so keeping the "Notepad++" component is fine). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/