There seems to be a bug in parsing the strings in Pkg. It only happens in a weird subset of cases: specifically, only on 1.6.0, only when using ssh rather than http to clone, and only when trying to add a specific package revision. Some examples of passing and failing cases. The following code fail…

Hi lungben, I don’t think so. Every call to “Pkg.add” continues to work as expected, and as far as I can tell other calls to Pkg functions work perfectly, so I don’t see any bugs like that. This is clearly only a parsing error that comes shows up in the “pkg>” repl mode and equivalently when parsin…

Pkg REPL mode bug in 1.6.0-rc2

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lungben March 16, 2021, 6:52am 2

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Pkg REPL mode bug in 1.6.0-rc2

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