From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:42:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] launch_editor(): allow spaces in the filename
Message-ID: <7vejaii7c5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803102140280.3975@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> For some reason, the construct
>
> 	sh -c "$0 \"$@\"" <editor> <file>
>
> does not pick up quotes in <editor> as expected.  So replace $0 with
> <editor>.
>
> This fixes
>
> 	git config core.editor "c:/Program Files/What/Ever.exe"
>

Having sent a few messages about shell quoting, it makes me wonder if this
was done very deliberately in the first place, so that you can do things
like:

	git config core.editor "emacs -nw"

Blame followed by list archive hunting around that timeperiod would tell.