From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 00:17:01 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk highlight feature
Message-ID: <17495.63101.163740.649150@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejzcj8da.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano writes:

> Eh, the string entered by me is quoted by the program, or do I
> have to quote it myself?  I suspect it should not be so bad to
> code, even if you have to do it with tcl ;-).

It's split up into arguments at whitespace unless the whitespace is
quoted, just like the shell does.  I wrote tcl code to do the
splitting and quoting according to the shell rules.  So you can, for
example, put:

	--unpacked --since='2 days ago'

in there and it will pass two arguments to git-rev-list, the second
containing the embedded spaces (but without the single-quotes).

Paul.