From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:52:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <47134656.4070707@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <4713431C.7030103@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson schrieb:
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you know what the library on the other end is doing to re-parse the
>>>> arguments back into separate strings, it might be possible to quote 
>>>> things
>>>> enough to handle names with spaces, but it is hard.
>>>
>>> It's not hard, it's just a bit of work.  And it needs to be done
>>> exactly once.
>>
>> Before someone beats me to it: "Patches welcome" ;-)
> 
> Let others do the research for you, hm?
> 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=blob;f=compat/mingw.c;h=2554f19765da5709b787e873da225c59f9d22bb7;hb=HEAD#l306 
> 

Yup. Although it was more in the nature of "whoever wrote it surely knows
he/she did it and where to find the patch", so I expect this wasn't much
of a timesink for you. My apologies if I was incorrect.

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