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Re: Bug: Recursive submodules fail when the repo path contains spaces

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2012, 20:37 UTC
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Justin Spahr-Summers <justin.spahrsummers@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Tuesday, 24. July 2012 at 13:26, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> I can see one codepath that would behave incorrectly,...
>> ...
>> My recommendation at this point (i.e. not a long term) for people
>> with problems Justin saw is "Don't do it then".
>
> I appreciate the debugging work.

That was not a debug, and I didn't mean to say that was the only place that is problematic. In fact I think I said the script is not prepared to work with paths with paths-unsafe characters because it has many problematic constructs, and ended the message with "Don't do it then".

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  1. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 24, 2012
  2. Jens LehmannJul 24, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2012
  4. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 24, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2012
  6. Heiko VoigtJul 28, 2012
  7. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 28, 2012
  8. Phil HordJul 29, 2012
  9. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 29, 2012
  10. Phil HordJul 29, 2012
  11. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 29, 2012
  12. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 24, 2012

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