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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	luciano@eurotux.com, git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make git send-email accept $EDITOR with arguments
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:17:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd4sz4uii.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476C2B2E.1080801@isy.liu.se> (Gustaf Hendeby's message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:07:58 +0100")

Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> writes:

> On 2007-12-21 20:23, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> I am fine with using the shell. Though keep in mind that the two
>> solutions will behave differently with
>> 
>>   EDITOR='foo; bar'
>> 
>> That is, system("$editor $message") will actually invoke the shell,
>> whereas system(split(/ /, $editor), $message) will _just_ split on
>> whitespace. We should do whatever is consistent with the rest of the git
>> commands (off the top of my head, I don't know).

Personally, I think EDITOR='foo; bar' is a user shooting his
foot off which we do not care about.

> A quick look at the proposed solution to the similar problem with git
> commit, using code now in git tag, it seems it uses a split like
> solution, though taking " and ' quoting into consideration.

I think the easiest to read and compatible way is:

	system('sh', '-c', '$0 $@', $editor, $filename)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-21 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20 20:14 [PATCH] Make git send-email accept $EDITOR with arguments Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-20 20:32 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-12-21 11:36   ` [PATCH v2] " Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-21 13:34     ` Jeff King
2007-12-21 15:23       ` Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-21 19:23         ` Jeff King
2007-12-21 21:07           ` Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-21 21:17             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-22  0:40               ` [PATCH v3] " Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-22  1:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-22  8:47                   ` Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-21 17:02     ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2007-12-22  0:43       ` [PATCH] Move git send-email cover letter temporary file to $GIT_DIR Gustaf Hendeby
2007-12-22  1:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-22  1:18           ` David Symonds
2007-12-22  6:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-22  7:04               ` David Symonds
2007-12-22  8:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-22  9:13                   ` Gustaf Hendeby
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-21 21:37 [PATCH v2] Make git send-email accept $EDITOR with arguments Gustaf Hendeby

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