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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-fast-import.txt: improve documentation for quoted paths
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:19:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121129191926.GA21439@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvccop6dv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:15:56AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> -If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style
> >> -quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`.
> >> +If an `LF`, backslash or double quote must be encoded into `<path>`
> >> +shell-style quoting should be used, and the complete name should be
> >> +surrounded with double quotes e.g. `"path/with\n, \\ and \" in it"`.
> 
> That "shell-style" contradicts with what fast-import.c says, though.
> It claims to grok \octal and described as C-style.

Yeah, I think it was just laziness by the original author to use
"shell-style" to mean "quotes and backslash escaping" without thinking
too hard about which escape sequences are available. Saying C-style is
more accurate (and Matthieu's more recent update does that).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29 12:33 [PATCH] git-remote-mediawiki: escape double quotes and LF in file names Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-29 16:57   ` Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 17:00     ` [PATCH 1/2] git-fast-import.txt: improve documentation for quoted paths Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 17:00       ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] git-remote-mediawiki: escape ", \, and LF in file names Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 18:11       ` [PATCH 1/2] git-fast-import.txt: improve documentation for quoted paths Jeff King
2012-11-29 18:47         ` Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 18:54           ` Jeff King
2012-11-29 19:11             ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] " Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 19:11               ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] git-remote-mediawiki: escape ", \, and LF in file names Matthieu Moy
2012-11-29 19:33               ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] git-fast-import.txt: improve documentation for quoted paths Junio C Hamano
2012-11-29 19:46                 ` Jeff King
2012-11-29 19:15         ` [PATCH 1/2] " Junio C Hamano
2012-11-29 19:19           ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-11-30  9:39           ` Matthieu Moy
2012-12-02  2:27             ` Junio C Hamano

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