From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:51:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] Fix tree mode of the file list for files containing curly brackets
Message-ID: <20080427165156.GA3828@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <18452.26961.14738.430774@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras, Sun, Apr 27, 2008 13:53:53 +0200:
> Alex Riesen writes:
> 
> > As far as I could understand the online documentation the [lindex ...]
> > thing expects an array, which a string produced by git-ls-tree is not.
> > So [split ...] it first, to get a real Tcl string-array.
> 
> Unfortunately that will do the wrong thing if the filename contains a
> tab character.  I think the right thing is to split the line textually
> at the tab, then treat the first part as a list (which will be OK
> since it consists of words without special characters, separated by
> spaces), and the second part as the filename.  That is what I was
> trying to do anyway, but I forgot to strip off the part after the tab,
> which is why lindex got unhappy with it.  Here's the patch I'm about
> to commit.
> 

FWIW, it does the right thing for me:

    $ git init
    Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
    $ >a
    $ git add .
    $ gci -m.
    Created initial commit 86ee2fa: .
     0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
     create mode 100644 a
    $ git mv a ' { b } '
    $ gci -m.
    Created commit 2a90dc5: .
     1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
     rename a =>  { b }  (100%)
    $ gitk
    $ happy
    The program 'happy' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
    sudo apt-get install happy
    bash: happy: command not found