From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:49:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: preserve all arguments exactly when recursing
Message-ID: <4938B399-3872-4352-9A78-BACAF5ECE38B@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101103054751.GE10631@burratino>

On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> On Nov 2, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
>>> Have you looked into "git rev-parse --sq-quote"?
>> 
>> Well crud, I wish I'd seen that before. Looks like it does pretty much the
>> exact same thing as my quote_words function. I'll send out another patch
>> that uses this instead of quote_words. Thanks for the info!
> 
> Incidentally, if you still remember where it might have been useful
> to find this advertised (git-sh-setup?), maybe we can find a way to document
> it better.

It might make sense to mention it in CodingGuidelines. That's where I always
look when writing shell code in order to make sure I'm not using any bashisms.

-Kevin Ballard