From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:47:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around a bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe with "^{tree}"
Message-ID: <20070712064738.GT4436@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <4693AF6C.99DB933@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> It seems that MSYS's wish does some quoting for Bourne shells, in
> particular, escape the first '{' of the "^{tree}" suffix, but then it uses
> cmd.exe to run "git rev-parse". However, cmd.exe does not remove the
> backslash, so that the resulting rev expression ends up in git's guts
> as unrecognizable garbage: rev-parse fails, and git-gui hickups in a way
> that it must be restarted.

Finally fixed in git-gui 0.7.5, which I just pushed out.

-- 
Shawn.