Re: [PATCH] convert filter: supply path to external driver

From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2010, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20101220144159.GB30945@honk.padd.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D0F0DFB.20502@viscovery.net>

j.sixt@viscovery.net wrote on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:04 +0100:

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> Am 12/19/2010 22:29, schrieb Pete Wyckoff:
> > Filtering to support keyword expansion may need the name of
> > the file being filtered.  In particular, to support p4 keywords
> > like
> > 
> >     $File: //depot/product/dir/script.sh $
> > 
> > the smudge filter needs to know the name of the file it is
> > smudging.
> > 
> > Add a "%s" conversion specifier to the gitattribute for filter.
> > It will be expanded with the path name to the file when invoking
> > the external filter command.
> 
> What happens if there are any shell special characters in the path name
> (or spaces, for that matter). Does this shell-escape the substituted path
> name anywhere in the call chain?

Good catch---it doesn't. I'll see if running everything through sq_quote_buf will help.

Incidentally there appears to be no way to quote spaces in filenames listed in .gitattributes, although fnmatch wildcards can be used to work around that.

		-- Pete