Re: [PATCH] Fixing path quoting issues

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 12/10/2007, a las 13:37, Johannes Schindelin escribi?:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>> > 
>> > > El 11/10/2007, a las 22:53, David Kastrup escribi?:
>> > > 
>> > > > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>> > > > 
>> > > > > Jonathan del Strother schrieb:
>> > > > > > How are you going to test that git works on paths with spaces if
>> > > > > > the
>> > > > > > test suite doesn't run there?
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > By writing a specific test?
>> > > > 
>> > > > This is going to be much less thorough.  And it does no harm if the
>> > > > test scripts demonstrate defensive programming.
>> > > 
>> > > +1: especially in this case, where it really is "defensive" and not
>> > > "paranoiac".
>> > 
>> > I am all for it, _iff_ the guilty parties (and by that, I mean _you_) do
>> > it and keep maintaining it.  See?  Discussion closed already.
>> 
>> How am *I* the guilty party? I'm merely endorsing David's comment that a 
>> modicum of defensive programming isn't a bad thing; an eminently 
>> reasonable position which is somewhat difficult to argue against.
>
> All I'm saying: let patches speak.  Talk is cheap.

The patches spoke.  That is what the [PATCH] in the subject line was about.

-- 
David Kastrup