# HG changeset patch
# User Steve Borho <steve@borho.org>
# Date 2009-07-12 05:46:43
# Node ID 78e54b9f3a629ba3f5200f8e0bcd165b5398b094
# Parent  f439d82f018cc91aab822045c747871d3f13c0f1

cmdutil: fall back to filename if glob expand has errors

On Windows, Mercurial tries to glob expand provided filenames as a
convenience to the user. Unfortunately, there are valid filenames
which are not valid glob patterns.  In those cases, we should fallback
to the original provided filename.

diff --git a/mercurial/cmdutil.py b/mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py
@@ -242,7 +242,10 @@ def expandpats(pats):
     for p in pats:
         kind, name = _match._patsplit(p, None)
         if kind is None:
-            globbed = glob.glob(name)
+            try:
+                globbed = glob.glob(name)
+            except re.error:
+                globbed = [name]
             if globbed:
                 ret.extend(globbed)
                 continue