Re: [PATCH] Fixing path quoting issues

From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2007, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <63D5CE5B-51DD-4017-B2E2-2ADC5DCBE849@steelskies.com>
In-Reply-To: <85k5pts796.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On 11 Oct 2007, at 21:53, David Kastrup wrote:

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> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>
>> Jonathan del Strother schrieb:
>>> How are you going to test that git works on paths with spaces if the
>>> test suite doesn't run there?
>>
>> By writing a specific test?
>
> This is going to be much less thorough.  And it does no harm if the
> test scripts demonstrate defensive programming.

I would also point out that most tests have already been written to handle this case - ones that don't quote their paths are in the minority.

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