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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Patrick Fong <patrickf3139@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug report] git status doesn't escape paths of untracked files
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:30:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5z8p12ds.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200908011756.GG241078@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Tue, 8 Sep 2020 01:17:56 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> git-status(1) says:
>
>   If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable characters,
>   that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string literal:
>   surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with interior
>   special characters backslash-escaped.
>
> Note that that differs from the standard behavior of not handling
> spaces, which I expect is due to the need to handle renames
> unambiguously.

Not really.  We use "rename from" and "rename to" extended header
lines in our output to unambiguously handle renamed paths.

cquote was indeed invented to serve "diff" output (actually, nice
things in the internal implementation of Git from the early years
were all invented to serve the diff machinery), but we deliberately
excluded SP from the set of characters that needs quoting because
it was thought to be reasonably common, compared to things like HT.

I agree with your "the special case handling needs to be taught to
the wt_shortstatus_other()"; a refactored helper function called
by both places would help.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-08  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-08  0:28 [Bug report] git status doesn't escape paths of untracked files Patrick Fong
2020-09-08  1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08  1:17 ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-08  1:30   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-09-08  4:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 17:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 19:01       ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-08 21:06       ` René Scharfe
2020-09-09 22:22         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 14:23           ` René Scharfe
2020-09-10 15:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08  1:30 ` [PATCH] wt-status: quote paths identically whether tracked or untracked brian m. carlson
2020-09-08 20:52   ` [PATCH 0/6] quote_path() clean-ups Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 20:52     ` [PATCH 1/6] quote_path: rename quote_path_relative() to quote_path() Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 20:52     ` [PATCH 2/6] quote_path: give flags parameter " Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 12:21       ` Jeff King
2020-09-10 15:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 15:17           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 20:26             ` Jeff King
2020-09-08 20:52     ` [PATCH 3/6] quote_path: optionally allow quoting a path with SP in it Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 12:35       ` Jeff King
2020-09-08 20:52     ` [PATCH 4/6] wt-status: consistently quote paths in "status --short" output Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 20:52     ` [PATCH 5/6] quote: rename misnamed sq_lookup[] to cq_lookup[] Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 20:52     ` [PATCH 6/6] quote: turn 'nodq' parameter into a set of flags Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 12:38       ` Jeff King
2020-09-08 22:56     ` [PATCH 0/6] quote_path() clean-ups Chris Torek
2020-09-10 12:39     ` Jeff King
2020-09-10 17:01     ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 1/7] quote_path: rename quote_path_relative() to quote_path() Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 2/7] quote_path: give flags parameter " Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 3/7] quote_path: optionally allow quoting a path with SP in it Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 4/7] quote_path: code clarification Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 18:08         ` Jeff King
2020-09-10 18:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 19:29             ` Jeff King
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 5/7] wt-status: consistently quote paths in "status --short" output Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 18:13         ` Jeff King
2020-09-10 18:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 6/7] quote: rename misnamed sq_lookup[] to cq_lookup[] Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 17:01       ` [PATCH v2 7/7] quote: turn 'nodq' parameter into a set of flags Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10 23:03       ` [PATCH v2 0/7] quote_path() clean-ups brian m. carlson

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