Re: [PATCH] rebase-i-exec: Allow space in SHELL_PATH

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 07:03:19AM +0100, Fredrik Medley wrote:

> On Windows, when Git is installed under "C:\Program Files\Git", SHELL_PATH
> will include a space. Fix "git rebase --interactive --exec" so that it
> works with spaces in SHELL_PATH.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
> ---
>  git-rebase--interactive.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> index 30edb17..b938a6d 100644
> --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ do_next () {
>  		read -r command rest < "$todo"
>  		mark_action_done
>  		printf 'Executing: %s\n' "$rest"
> -		${SHELL:-@SHELL_PATH@} -c "$rest" # Actual execution
> +		"${SHELL:-@SHELL_PATH@}" -c "$rest" # Actual execution

I think this is the right thing to do (at least I could not think of a
case that would be harmed by it, and it certainly fixes your case). It
looks like filter-branch would need a similar fix?

I think this still isn't resilient to weird meta-characters in the
@SHELL_PATH@, but as this is a build-time option, I think it's OK to let
people who do

  make SHELL_PATH='}"; rm -rf /'

hang themselves.

-Peff