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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pathspec: allow escaped query values
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 11:58:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWQYRbV_Oc-xCKE2R_O=aMBm_g_CLB=RPUam7EtbGPTgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57507DFD.6010800@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ramsay Jones
<ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>> That would be workable, I would think.  Before attr:VAR=VAL
>> extention, supported pathspec <magic> were only single lowercase-ascii
>> alphabet tokens, so nobody would have used " as a part of magic.  So
>> quting with double-quote pair would work.
>
> I was thinking about both ' and ", so that you could do:

Yes, I understood your suggestion as such. Quoting like shells would work
without breaking backward compatibility for the same reason quoting with
double-quote and backslash only without supporting single-quotes would
work.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-01 23:52 [RFC/PATCH] pathspec: allow escaped query values Stefan Beller
2016-06-02  0:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-02  2:23   ` Stefan Beller
2016-06-02  0:38 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-02  2:20   ` Stefan Beller
2016-06-02  5:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-02 15:30     ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-02 16:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-02 18:42         ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-02 18:58           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-06-02 19:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-02 19:52               ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-02 19:04           ` Stefan Beller
2016-06-02 19:44             ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-02 19:46               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-02 19:53                 ` Ramsay Jones

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