git-cola/git-cola — Issue #108: Windows start menu shortcut does not support spaces in git-cola path
Author: OmegaPhil
Created: 2012-02-10 10:56:50+00:00
State: open

At work I am testing out git-cola on a Windows 2003 VM (same bloke that emailed the google groups just ;)). Installation of the latest version from the site results in the following shortcut to launch git-cola:

C:\Python27\pythonw.exe C:\Program Files\git-cola\bin\git-cola.pyw --prompt --git-path "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe"

The python path and git paths are asked for on install and are correct. Windows command prompt cannot cope with the git-cola path not being speechmark-delimited (and this is the default place to install it...) meaning that using the shortcut results in nothing happening.

Fixing the shortcut to use speechmarks here works.