Re: [BUG] regarding `git add -p` and files containing wildcard characters

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 04:46:49AM +0300, unixway.drive@gmail.com wrote:

> The problem is that `git-diff-files` does some globbing on the 'path'
> arguments on its own and has no option to disable that (and
> `git-add--interactive`'s `run_cmd_pipe` already handles all other sorts of
> unsafe characters like spaces and backticks well).

I think the option you're looking for is:

  git --literal-pathspecs diff-files ... -- 'Random *'

I don't know if there are other commands run by add--interactive that
would want the same treatment. It might actually make sense to set
GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1 in the environment right after it expands the
list via ls-files.

> diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
> index ee3d812..358d877 100755
> --- a/git-add--interactive.perl
> +++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
> @@ -2,3 +2,3 @@
> 
> -use 5.008;
> +use 5.014;
>  use strict;
> @@ -761,3 +761,5 @@ sub parse_diff {
>         }
> -       my @diff = run_cmd_pipe("git", @diff_cmd, "--", $path);
> +       my @diff = run_cmd_pipe("git", @diff_cmd, "--", (
> +               $path =~ s#[\[*?]#\\$&#gr
> +       ));

This callsite covers "-p". It looks like list_modified() probably needs
similar treatment. Maybe others; I didn't look exhaustively.

-Peff