From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.ch>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] alternates: accept double-quoted paths
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:52:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161213115218.7arxxatus7qjdu2m@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8B52ZDRTUjGLqub_1wELtugv99xbDnBg1PX1LUTb6nVMQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 06:30:15PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Instead, let's treat names as unquoted unless they begin
> > with a double-quote, in which case they are interpreted via
> > our usual C-stylke quoting rules. This also breaks
> > backwards-compatibility, but in a smaller way: it only
> > matters if your file has a double-quote as the very _first_
> > character in the path (whereas an escape character is a
> > problem anywhere in the path). It's also consistent with
> > many other parts of git, which accept either a bare pathname
> > or a double-quoted one, and the sender can choose to quote
> > or not as required.
>
> At least attr has the same problem and is going the same direction
> [1]. Cool. (I actually thought the patch was in and evidence that this
> kind of backward compatibility breaking was ok, turns out the patch
> has stayed around for years)
>
> [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20161110203428.30512-18-sbeller@google.com%3E/
Thanks for digging that up. As soon as I came up with the idea[1], I
wanted to use the attr code as an example of a similar problem and
solution, but I couldn't find it in the code. Which makes sense if it
wasn't merged.
I do think it's a pretty reasonable approach in general, and would be OK
for the attributes code.
-Peff
[1] One could argue that I did not come up with the idea at all, but
rather just remembered that somebody else had done so. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-13 11:52 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 [this message]
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
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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