From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 06:30:57 GMT
Subject: Re: problem with backslash in directory name
Message-ID: <20170407063057.yjbqavu4uiipslpc@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e3af7d6-a2c1-2673-53cc-d4c5105d9051@durchholz.org>

On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:12:49AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

> So... something inside "git submodule add" is replacing the \b with a
> backspace control code.
> [...]
> Whatever that "something" is, it is not doing shell expansion, otherwise it
> would have started an interactive calculator session.

Probably it's "read" which does backslash expansion, but nothing else.
Just grepping git-submodule.sh, some of the "read" calls should probably
be "read -r" (I also don't know how some of those loops would cope with
a submodule name that needed quoting).

-Peff