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[PATCH] Allow passing of --directory to git-am.

From
Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date
Dec 4, 2008, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID
<49380D84.5050403@fs.ei.tum.de>

We need to play some shell tricks to be able to pass directory names which contain spaces and/or quotes.

Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
---
  git-am.sh |    8 +++++---
  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index aa60261..4052d7d 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ s,signoff       add a Signed-off-by line to the commit 
message
  u,utf8          recode into utf8 (default)
  k,keep          pass -k flag to git-mailinfo
  whitespace=     pass it through git-apply
+directory=      pass it through git-apply
  C=              pass it through git-apply
  p=              pass it through git-apply
  resolvemsg=     override error message when patch failure occurs
@@ -155,8 +156,9 @@ do
  		;;
  	--resolvemsg)
  		shift; resolvemsg=$1 ;;
-	--whitespace)
-		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1=$2"; shift ;;
+	--whitespace|--directory)
+		quot=$(echo "$2" | sed -e "s/'/\\'/g")
+		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1='$quot'"; shift ;;
  	-C|-p)
  		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1$2"; shift ;;
  	--)
@@ -454,7 +456,7 @@ do

  	case "$resolved" in
  	'')
-		git apply $git_apply_opt --index "$dotest/patch"
+		eval git apply $git_apply_opt --index '"$dotest/patch"'
  		apply_status=$?
  		;;
  	t)
-- 
1.6.1.rc1.45.g123ed.dirty
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