From: Johannes Sixt Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:24:47 GMT Subject: [PATCH] add--interactive: fix external command invocation on Windows Message-ID: <5226E03F.208@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: From: Johannes Sixt Back in 21e9757e (Hack git-add--interactive to make it work with ActiveState Perl, 2007-08-01), the invocation of external commands was changed to use qx{} on Windows. The rationale was that the command interpreter on Windows is not a POSIX shell, but rather Windows's CMD. That patch was wrong to include 'msys' in the check whether to use qx{} or not: 'msys' identifies MSYS perl as shipped with Git for Windows, which does not need the special treatment; qx{} should be used only with ActiveState perl, which is identified by 'MSWin32'. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt --- Am 9/2/2013 13:56, schrieb Duy Nguyen: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> Which features do we lose on Windows with the previous patch and this fixup? > > New pathspec magic :(glob), :(literal) and :(icase). You can still use > them via --*-pathspecs or equivalent env variables. You just can't > enable them per individual pathspec. I think this here is the correct "solution" rather than the special cases for Windows that you proposed. ActiveState perl users would still suffer, but that is a problem of the run_cmd_pipe implementation, which would need a smarter method to quote the arguments before it feeds them to qx{}. git-add--interactive.perl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl index 75a991f..5156384 100755 --- a/git-add--interactive.perl +++ b/git-add--interactive.perl @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ my %patch_modes = ( my %patch_mode_flavour = %{$patch_modes{stage}}; sub run_cmd_pipe { - if ($^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'msys') { + if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') { my @invalid = grep {m/[":*]/} @_; die "$^O does not support: @invalid\n" if @invalid; my @args = map { m/ /o ? "\"$_\"": $_ } @_; -- 1.8.4.1549.gc059550.dirty -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.