From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:47:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: fix the "built from commit" code
Message-ID: <20180628174721.GD31766@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa7reyg6z.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:27:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> I.e.:
> >> 
> >>   FOO='with spaces'
> >>   BAR=$FOO sh -c 'echo $BAR'
> >> 
> >> works just fine.
> >
> > 	$ x="two  spaces"
> >
> > 	$ echo $x
> > 	two spaces
> >
> > Maybe we should quote a little bit more religiously.
> 
> Both of you are wrong ;-)
> 
> Of course, the lack of dq around echo's argument makes shell split
> two and spaces into two args and feed them separately to echo, and
> causes echo to show them with a single SP in between.  Peff's
> exampel should have been
> 
> 	BAR=$FOO sh -c 'echo "$BAR"'

Yes, that's a better example. I was primarily trying to show that the
outer shell did not barf with "spaces: command not found".

> But that does not have much to do with the primary point Peff was
> talking about, which is that in this sequence:
> 
> 	$ x="two  spaces"
> 	$ y="$x"
> 	$ z=$x
> 	$ echo "x=<$x>" "y=<$y>" "z=<$z>"
> 
> assignment to y and z behave identically, i.e. dq around "$x" when
> assigning to y is not needed.

I actually had to test it to convince myself that one-shot assignments
behaved the same way, but they do.

-Peff