Re: t6200: avoid path mangling issue on Windows

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2013, 07:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vli8cwe5v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130421000522.GB10043@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> But a _real user_ who wants to use a slash there has no way of doing
>> so.
>
> Doesn't foo=// do that in the msys world?

"that" refers to...?  Do you mean:

    $ value=/; mycmd key="$value"

    breaks msys, but you can say

    $ value=//; mycmd key="$value"

    instead to pass a value that is a single slash.

then that is not a valid workaround; it would work differently between Windows (passes one slash?) and everybody else (passes two slashes).

I do not mean to say the "'' (empty string) and what you want to say and '' (empty string) concatenated together" I suggested in the previous message is a workable (let alone the best) proposition, but if

    $ value=/; mycmd key=''"$value"''

worked as a way to temporarily turn off the path mangling, it at least would be a usable workaround that would work the same way between Windows and everybody else.