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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Allow using arguments to the editor.
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:15:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902181515.59625.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234964869-11159-1-git-send-email-rhonda@deb.at>

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Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> When setting the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variable, one might want
> to hand over arguments (like e.g. for not backgrounding a GUI editor but
> waiting for it to finish. This patch enables that posibility, before it
> did look for a program with the content of the variable, including the
> space as filename part. The change is in sync with regular behavior with
> various other tools, git itself included.
[...]
> +		my (@editor) = split /\s+/, $editor;

This doesn't handle quoted spaces and such.  launch_editor() seems to
pass the $EDITOR through 'sh -c' if there are any special characters
inside, wouldn't that be appropriate for git-svn too?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 13:47 [PATCH] git-svn: Allow using arguments to the editor Gerfried Fuchs
2009-02-18 14:15 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-02-18 14:48   ` Gerfried Fuchs
2009-02-18 15:43     ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-19  8:10 ` Eric Wong

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