diff -r 942a5a34b2d0 -r d65ecb814fc0 mercurial/windows.py
--- 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)