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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Fong <patrickf3139@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug report] git status doesn't escape paths of untracked files
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:13:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa6y1135o.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRL+qb0YC1EOTM-LDfMpJ=AJJ014LT5ufBcs0v77byN74A0vw@mail.gmail.com> (Patrick Fong's message of "Mon, 7 Sep 2020 17:28:57 -0700")

Patrick Fong <patrickf3139@gmail.com> writes:

> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> touch "this is escaped"
> touch "this is not escaped"
> git add "this is escaped"
> git status --short
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> I expected that git status --short would string escape both "this is
> escaped" and "this is not escaped" since they both contain spaces that
> need escaping.
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> git status did not string escape "this is not escaped" but it does if
> you add it to the index.

It indeed is a disturbing inconsistency, and the code that shows the
untracked paths should be fixed.  I wonder what is done to ignored
paths when the "--ignored" option is given.

wt-status.c::wt_shortstatus_status() has a strange special case that
says "whitespace alone does not usually deserve quoting, but we
special case it and manually quote"; this discrepancy/special casing
was introduced at dbfdc625 (status: Quote paths with spaces in short
format, 2010-11-08).  A fix would probably be to port the same fix
to wt-status.c::wt_shortstatus_other().

In the longer term, quote.c::quote_path() may want to learn an
optional flag to tell it to do the the special casing.

Thanks.  

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-08  1:13 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 [this message]
2020-09-08  1:17 ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-08  1:30   ` Junio C Hamano
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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