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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-sh-setup.sh: make GIT_EDITOR/core.editor/VISUAL/EDITOR accept commands
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:58:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85sl72x0x5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzri3kpr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed\, 01 Aug 2007 16\:21\:04 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> It is not just "won't apply".  What if GIT_DIR had spaces (which
>> is fine) and single-quotes in it?  Wouldn't it percolate down to
>> $@ because it becomes the leading directory of the temporary
>> file name?  And you quote '"$@"' and eval it, now what happens?
>
> Ah, I spoke too fast.  It is fine --- the shell that actually is
> doing the eval then interpolates "$@".  Clever.

Since eval folds all its arguments into a single string separated by
single blanks, actual blanks (which can be multiple or interspersed
with newlines) must not yet be seen.  The string '"$@"' contains no
blanks and thus gets through unmolested.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01 13:36 Interpreting EDITOR/VISUAL environment variables David Kastrup
2007-08-01 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 18:50   ` Yann Dirson
2007-08-01 19:30     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-01 19:08   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-01 19:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 21:47       ` [PATCH] git-sh-setup.sh: make GIT_EDITOR/core.editor/VISUAL/EDITOR accept commands David Kastrup
2007-08-01 22:17         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-01 21:47           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-01 23:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 23:21             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 23:58               ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-02  1:00                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 23:55             ` David Kastrup
2007-08-02 10:10     ` Interpreting EDITOR/VISUAL environment variables Matthias Lederhofer
2007-08-02 10:31       ` David Kastrup

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