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Re: [BUG] git bisect should not expand file globs in log

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FPFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date
Feb 12, 2008, 21:10 UTC
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<200802122210.50990.elendil@planet.nl>
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0802121950210.3870@racer.site>
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, you wrote:
> does this help?  (It is a really trivial patch...)
Yes, it does. Thanks.

You beat Alex by about 15 minutes. If I'd known this was just shell script, I could've done the patch myself :-P

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> [PATCH] bisect: use verbatim commit subject in the bisect log
>
> Due to a typo, the commit subject was shell expanded in the bisect log.
> That is, if you had some shell pattern in the commit subject, bisect
> would happily put all matching file names into the log.
>
> Noticed by Frans Pop.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
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Message 3 of 4 in “[BUG] git bisect should not expand file globs in log”
  1. Frans PopFeb 12, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 12, 2008
  3. Frans PopFeb 12, 2008
  4. Fix shell quoting in git-bisectAlex Riesen, Feb 12, 2008

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