--- a/mercurial/windows.py Mon Feb 02 14:26:47 2015 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/windows.py Wed Feb 11 19:57:07 2015 +0900
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
# they are used as a part of path name (and the latter doesn't
# work as "escape character", like one on posix) on Windows
_needsshellquote = re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9._:/\\-]').search
- if not _needsshellquote(s) and not _quotere.search(s):
+ if s and not _needsshellquote(s) and not _quotere.search(s):
# "s" shouldn't have to be quoted
return s
return '"%s"' % _quotere.sub(r'\1\1\\\2', s)