Re: [mingw port] git plumbing piping with CR/NL

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 6/1/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, Fri, Jun 01, 2007 20:23:24 +0200:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't had time looking at the code yet. I report here so that I
> > can free my memory for other things. I made a command like this:
> >
> > $ git ls-tree -r HEAD|grep blah.cc|git update-index --index-info
> >
> > and the output of git-status was:
> >
> > $ git status
> > # On branch master
> > # Changes to be committed:
> > #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> > #
> > #     new file:   path/to/blah.cc\r
> > #
> > # Changed but not updated:
> > #   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> > #
> > #     deleted:    path/to/blah.cc\r
> > ...
> > $ git version
> > git version 1.5.2.651.g80e39-dirty (if the commit isn't in the master
> > branch, it is based on master branch)
> >
> > Apparently git should ignore \r at the end of the path. ...
>
> Why should it? \r is a valid character in filenames almost everywhere
> (except for the some proprietary OSes, as usual).

Right. Although I doubt usage of \r and other special characters in filenames.

> Why does your grep _alters_ the input, instead of filtering it, btw?

I have no idea. It's grep from MKS Toolkit FYI.
-- 
Duy