From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:54:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svnimport: Use separate arguments in the pipe for git-rev-parse Message-ID: <7vlkb4wdzq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070918074753.GQ31176@kiste.smurf.noris.de> Matthias Urlichs writes: > Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs > --- > Please tell me whether that works for you. > > Somebody else, preferably its author, can fix git-svn. ;-) > > diff --git a/git-svnimport.perl b/git-svnimport.perl > index d3ad5b9..aa5b3b2 100755 > --- a/git-svnimport.perl > +++ b/git-svnimport.perl > @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ sub commit { > > my $rev; > if($revision > $opt_s and defined $parent) { > - open(H,"git-rev-parse --verify $parent |"); > + open(H,'-|',"git-rev-parse","--verify",$parent); > $rev = ; > close(H) or do { > print STDERR "$revision: cannot find commit '$parent'!\n"; I seem to be missing the context, but please describe what problem this fixes in the commit log message. I guess some people use shell metacharacters and/or SP in their branch names and this is about that problem?