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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.ch>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] handling alternates paths with colons
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:50:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161213115018.quulwlheycjtlsub@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvauo7p0r.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 02:37:08PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So here are patches that do that. It kicks in only when the first
> > character of a path is a double-quote, and then expects the usual
> > C-style quoting.
> 
> The quote being per delimited component is what makes this fifth
> approach a huge win.  
> 
> All sane components on a list-valued environment are still honored
> and an insane component that has either a colon in the middle or
> begins with a double-quote gets quoted.  As long as nobody used a
> path that begins with a double-quote as an element in such a
> list-valued environment (and they cannot be, as using a non-absolute
> path as an element does not make much sense), this will be safe, and
> a path with a colon didn't work with Git unaware of the new quoting
> rule anyway.  Nice.

We do support non-absolute paths, both in alternates files and
environment variables. It's a nice feature if you want to have a
relocatable family of shared repositories. I'd imagine that most cases
start with "../", though.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-09 14:02 [BUG] Colon in remote urls Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-09 15:22 ` Jeff King
2016-12-09 19:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-10  8:51     ` Jeff King
2016-12-12 19:49       ` [PATCH 0/2] handling alternates paths with colons Jeff King
2016-12-12 19:52         ` [PATCH 1/2] alternates: accept double-quoted paths Jeff King
2016-12-13 11:30           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-12-13 11:52             ` Jeff King
2016-12-13 18:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-17  7:56               ` Duy Nguyen
2016-12-12 19:53         ` [PATCH 2/2] tmp-objdir: quote paths we add to alternates Jeff King
2016-12-12 20:53           ` Johannes Sixt
2016-12-13 11:44             ` Jeff King
2016-12-13 18:10               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-13 18:15                 ` Jeff King
2016-12-13 20:10                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-13 19:09           ` [PATCH 3/2] t5547-push-quarantine: run the path separator test on Windows, too Johannes Sixt
2016-12-13 19:12             ` Jeff King
2016-12-13 19:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-21 21:33             ` [PATCH 4/2] t5615-alternate-env: double-quotes in file names do not work on Windows Johannes Sixt
2016-12-21 22:42               ` Jeff King
2016-12-22  6:13                 ` Johannes Sixt
2016-12-22 19:06                   ` Johannes Sixt
2016-12-22 21:38                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-22 22:19                     ` Jeff King
2016-12-12 22:37         ` [PATCH 0/2] handling alternates paths with colons Junio C Hamano
2016-12-13 11:50           ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-12-13 18:10             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-13 18:17               ` Jeff King
2016-12-13 18:42                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-13 18:47                   ` Jeff King
2016-12-10  9:29     ` [BUG] Colon in remote urls Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-10 10:24       ` Jeff King
2016-12-10 10:46         ` Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-09 21:32   ` Johannes Sixt
2016-12-10  8:26     ` Jeff King
2016-12-10  9:41       ` Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-10 10:26         ` Jeff King
2016-12-10 10:51           ` Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-10  9:32     ` Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-10 18:18       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-11 11:02         ` Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-11 14:51           ` Philip Oakley
2016-12-12 11:03           ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-12 11:50             ` Klaus Ethgen
2016-12-12 14:05               ` Johannes Schindelin

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