From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git silently ignores include directive with single quotes
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:35:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910183557.GD26356@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa7optdbs.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> 1. Treat single-quote as worth quoting in config.c::write_pair (line
>> 2516). This would already help with the original issue, since the
>> config would say
>>
>> [foo]
>> bar = \'baz\'
>>
>> allowing a quick diagnosis.
>
> I am mildly against this, as long as you feel that all the remaining
> steps need to be marked with "(optional)", because this will give
> readers an impression that somehow single-quote is special. If we
> do not intend to make it special at all, we shouldn't.
That's fair, especially because it would be inconsistent with shell
command language, where single-quote inside double quotes is not
special:
$ printf '%s\n' "\'"
\'
(I realize that backslash means something different in Git config; I'm
just saying it would be another source of cognitive dissonance.)
Updated proposal:
1. Treat strings starting or ending with single-quote as worth
quoting in config.c::write_pair (line 3269). This would already
help with the original issue, since the config would say
[foo]
bar = "'baz'"
allowing a quick diagnosis.
2. (optional) Warn if a value is surrounded in single-quotes,
encouraging using surrounding double-quotes to disambiguate.
3. (optional) Error out if a value is surrounded in single-quotes,
encouraging replacing with or surrounding with double-quote,
depending on the user's intention.
4. (optional) Start treating wrapping single-quotes specially
somehow.
As before, I think step 1 is a good idea, but I'm not convinced about
any of the later steps.
Thanks,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-10 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-08 18:58 git silently ignores include directive with single quotes Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 19:30 ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-08 19:44 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 19:53 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 20:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 20:13 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 20:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 20:58 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-09 2:51 ` Paul Smith
2018-09-09 2:57 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 19:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 20:04 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 20:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 21:14 ` Jeff King
2018-09-08 22:10 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-09-09 2:33 ` Jeff King
2018-09-11 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-11 20:57 ` Jeff King
2018-09-23 22:48 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-24 21:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-24 23:20 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-24 22:24 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Philip Oakley
2018-09-24 23:05 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-24 22:24 ` [PATCH 1/1] config doc: highlight the name=value syntax Philip Oakley
2018-09-25 22:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-08 22:32 ` git silently ignores include directive with single quotes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-09 2:29 ` Jeff King
2018-09-08 21:22 ` Jeff King
2018-09-08 22:49 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-09 2:30 ` Jeff King
2018-09-10 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 17:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-10 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 18:35 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2018-09-10 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 19:52 ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-10 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
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