Escaping a colon in a branch name

I named a hg flow hotfix like bug1234:somthing, and now I can not finish the hotfix I always get:

hg: parse error at 6: syntax error

Is there a way to escape the colon in the branchname, so I can finish my hotfix?

I'm using:

Ubuntu 11.04

Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.8.4)

HG F开发者_JAVA技巧low

started the hotfix with command:

$>hg flow hotfix start bug110711:Billing

after coding (bugfix) I tried:

$>hg flow hotfix finish bug110711:Billing
hg: parse error at 6: syntax error

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I ran into the same problem. The hg operation I ran was different though, I tried to update to a branch with a colon in the name. The solution was to quote the command twice. So your command will look like this:

hg update -r '"My branch with a : character"'

The idea is that the outer quotes (') are for the shell and the inner ones (") are for the revset parser.

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The error message of hg tag is more clear than the one of hg flow:

$ hg tag "bug1234:so"
abort: ':' cannot be used in a tag name

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wrap the special word with "" and entire parameter in ''

e.g

hg log -r '::"first"'