From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:37:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Improve "git grep" flags handling
Message-ID: <7vd5nd7w0x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121519310.3266@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> +  # git-ls-file specific flags
> +  --others|--exclude=*|--exclude-from=*|--exclude-per-directory=*)
> +      git_flags="$git_flags $pattern"
> +      shift
> +      ;;

This would not fly well, I am afraid.  --exclude=* are usually
shell globs which would be expanded before you use them
unquoted.