Re: problem with backslash in directory name

From: Joachim Durchholz <jo@durchholz.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2017, 08:40 UTC
Message-ID: <0a51432b-b9c9-32c5-c064-5fc9aaddebc7@durchholz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170407063057.yjbqavu4uiipslpc@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 07.04.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Jeff King:

> I also don't know how some of those loops would cope with
> a submodule name that needed quoting).

"git submodule add" worked fine with most of the following names:

     "sub"
     # potentially confusing the shell
     "sub with blanks",
     "sub with\nnewline",
     "sub with'single quote",
     "sub with\"double quote",
     "sub with\\backslash",
     "sub with\bbackspace",
     "sub with\thorizontal tab",
     # potentially confusing git's configuration format
     "sub with #",
     "sub with ="

(That's Python 3 literals in case somebody is wondering. I'm using Python to unit test a shell script, just so I can catch this sort of stuff...)