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Re: [PATCH] git-am: add --directory=<dir> option

From
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date
Jan 15, 2009, 01:08 UTC
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Hi,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Do I have a thinko or should it be this:
> >
> > +		sed -e 's/'\''/'\''\\\'\'''\''/g' -e 's/.*/ '\''&'\''/'
> > 		                   ^^
> > 			(added for escaping ' outside single quotes)
> 
> Almost.
> 
> Certainly my original was bad; shell unquotes to "s/'/'\''/g", but that
> backslash is not protected from further interpretation by sed, which
> happily turns backslash-single quote into a single quote, which I forgot.
> 
> You feed "s/'/'\\\''/g" which correctly protects one backslash from sed by
> doubling it, but it has one unnecessary extra backslash.
My attempt was to escape one backslash and to escape one single quote.
> The extra one
> does not hurt because the backslash + single quote is eaten by sed to
> produce a single quote, but it is not quite right.

Well, this explains why my syntax highlighting has "gone mad" in your former and in my version.

> We should be feeding sed with "s/'/'\\''/g", so you need to add one
> backslash to mine.
Ok, works like a charm :-)
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> > Have you forgotten to add the files prefixed with "am-test-5-" or is this
> > patch based on another one?
> 
> The one I actually queued is b47dfe9 (git-am: add --directory=<dir>
> option, 2009-01-11) and it does include these test vectors.  My bad.
Ohh, I did not even notice that you queued it, because I do not track "next".

And in my git-am.txt snippet I even forgot adding the option to the synopsis. Oh, boy. :-)

I think it's fine now. :-)
Regards,
  Stephan
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  3. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2009
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