From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around a bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe with "^{tree}"
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:47:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070712064738.GT4436@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4693AF6C.99DB933@eudaptics.com>
Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> It seems that MSYS's wish does some quoting for Bourne shells, in
> particular, escape the first '{' of the "^{tree}" suffix, but then it uses
> cmd.exe to run "git rev-parse". However, cmd.exe does not remove the
> backslash, so that the resulting rev expression ends up in git's guts
> as unrecognizable garbage: rev-parse fails, and git-gui hickups in a way
> that it must be restarted.
Finally fixed in git-gui 0.7.5, which I just pushed out.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 6:47 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-10 16:10 [PATCH] Work around a bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe with "^{tree}" Johannes Sixt
2007-07-11 8:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-12 6:47 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
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2007-07-10 13:09 Johannes Sixt
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