Re: [PATCH 6/6] doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/revisions.txt | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
> index dfcc49c72c..c1d3a40a90 100644
> --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ syntax.  Here are various ways to spell object names.  The
>  ones listed near the end of this list name trees and
>  blobs contained in a commit.
>  
> +NOTE: This document shows the "raw" syntax as seen by git. The shell
> +and other UIs might require additional quoting to protect special
> +characters and to avoid word splitting.
> +
>  '<sha1>', e.g. 'dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735', 'dae86e'::
>    The full SHA-1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or
>    a leading substring that is unique within the repository.
> @@ -186,6 +190,8 @@ existing tag object.
>    is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a
>    literal '!' character, followed by 'foo'. Any other sequence beginning with
>    ':/!' is reserved for now.
> +  Depending on the given text the shell's word splitting rules might
> +  require additional quoting.
>  
>  '<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README'::
>    A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree

I've seen this suggested before and thought it is a good idea.  GOod
to see it is finally happening ;-)  Thanks.