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

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.

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

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

e.g

hg log -r '::"first"'