### Please describe the problem.

Git annex can't use remotes with the type "file://" if the path contains spaces

### What steps will reproduce the problem?

- Create one repository with a space in the path (and initialize annex in it)
- Clone that repo to an other directory (and initialize annex also in that)
- add a file to the first repository in the annex way
- chdir to the second repository and try to get that file, it won't work (also after git pull or git sync pull)

Check this typescripts for a more detailed description

<http://uz.sns.it/~enrico/git-annex-bugreport.txt>

<http://pastebin.com/f8wkDNrG> (thanks mhameed for that data)


### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

I'm using debian testing (jessie) on a i386 machine.

`git-annex` version: 4.20130521 (according to apt data and `git annex version`)

`git-annex` build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV Inotify DBus XMPP

`git` version: 1.7.10.4


### Please provide any additional information below.

I don't use git annex assistant nor the webapp

> Tested and only file:// and not other urls have this problem.
> guilhem provided a fix. [[done]] --[[Joey]]