From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-clean fails to remove a file whose name contains \\, ", or \n, TAB, etc.
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 13:53:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbqgv2g1h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k5vj9gzu.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Tue, 08 May 2007 13:51:01 -0700")
merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
>
> Jim> Not that it matters (or maybe this is a feature :-), because people
> Jim> who create such files in their working directory deserve what they
> Jim> get, Eh? :-)
>
> The problem is the newline in the string, since
>
> git-ls-files --others --directory $excl ${excl_info:+"$excl_info"} -- "$@" |
> while read -r file; do
>
> is using newline as a delimiter. Any file with a newline would mess this up.
>
> Not being a shell programming expert, is there a way we could use -z and xargs
> -0 here instead?
Funny that we had this discussed on this list a few days ago
;-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 20:32 git-clean fails to remove a file whose name contains \\, ", or \n, TAB, etc Jim Meyering
2007-05-08 20:51 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-05-08 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-05-08 23:11 ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-08 23:18 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-05-08 23:27 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 23:29 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-05-08 23:38 ` Karl Hasselström
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