Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: preserve all arguments exactly when recursing

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Kevin Ballard wrote:
> 
>>           It's also a reasonable model for how to handle this problem
>> in other shell commands.
> 
> This caught my attention. :)
> 
>> +# Emit a quoted version of the all argument suitable for passing to `eval`
>> +# $@ = words to quote
>> +#
>> +# This is intended to be used like the following:
>> +#   orig_args="$(quote_words "$@")"
>> +#   # do some work that includes calling shift
>> +#   eval "set - $orig_args"
>> +#   # now $@ has been restored, suitable for passing to another command
>> +#
>> +# Note that you cannot simply save off $@ into another variable because
>> +# the shell gives $@ and $* special handling in parameter expansion
>> +#
>> +quote_words ()
> 
> Have you looked into "git rev-parse --sq-quote"?