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Ben Knoble" , Ran Ari-Gur , git@vger.kernel.org, "raa.lkml@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [BUG] `git clone '-c KEY=VALUE'` no longer works In-Reply-To: <20251126145320.GA4143292@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:53:20 -0500") References: <20251124235530.GC2051672@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20251126145320.GA4143292@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:08:32 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff King writes: > I would be more sympathetic if the original report was "it is useful for > so-and-so reason to do this whitespace stripping". But it really sounds > like the problem was some caller doing something like (in perl > pseudo-code): > > system("git", "clone", "-c $key", $repo); > > instead of: > > system("git", "clone", "-c", $key, $repo); > > which is just a bug that happened to work in this limited instance. > > So my inclination would be to leave it be, because I do not think it > merits the time. But if somebody else wants to go for it, I will not > stop them. ;) ;-) I might, as it would consume my time as well as theirs.