From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t3703: add test cases for pathspec magic
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 11:56:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwri2wd8x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304764507-27547-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> ("Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy"'s message of "Sat, 7 May 2011 17:35:07 +0700")
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> That was the intention, but it raises a question: what do we do if a
> file happens to have the same name with the given magic pathspec, as
> in the last two tests?
I would have expected that in such a case the user would pass a "\:" or
even ":::" to match the file ":", and "\:(rubbish)" to match the file
":(rubbish)". The whole ":" is special thing comes from the observation
that a path that begins with a colon is rare, so it is Ok to require the
user to do some more work (typing an extra backslash) when he really wants
to match with such a thing.
A script that takes a pathname that is meant to be a literal from the user
in its variable $x would pass ":(noglob)$x" when it wants to be strict. A
script that lets the user say whatever and wants to pass would just pass
"$x" along the callchain.
I do not expect this to be an issue in practice, though. Have you seen a
script that tries to quote all the possible globbing characters in "$x"
before calling into git with the current codebase without this magic?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-07 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-07 10:35 [PATCH] t3703: add test cases for pathspec magic Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-05-07 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-05-08 9:59 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-05-08 11:08 ` [PATCH] t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-05-08 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-09 12:33 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-05-09 16:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-09 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 0/9] magic pathspec updates Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 1/9] grep: use get_pathspec() correctly Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 2/9] get_pathspec(): an empty ':' pathspec should stand alone Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 3/9] count_pathspec(): return number of elements in pathspec Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 13:29 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 4/9] add ":" is a pathspec that is too wide Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 5/9] git rm ":" is like specifying nothing Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 6/9] clean " Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 15:14 ` Thiago Farina
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 7/9] mv ":" ":" is like moving nothing from nowhere to nowhere Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 13:30 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 8/9] checkout ":" is not giving any pathspec Junio C Hamano
2011-05-10 5:51 ` [PATCH 9/9] t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec Junio C Hamano
2011-05-12 8:21 ` [PATCH jc/magic-pathspec] t3703: Skip tests using directory name ":" on Windows Johannes Sixt
2011-05-29 18:29 ` [PATCH 9/9] t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-29 20:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-29 20:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-10 13:47 ` [PATCH 0/9] magic pathspec updates Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-05-10 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-11 12:11 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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