From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:33:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] launch_editor(): allow spaces in the filename
Message-ID: <7vod9mi7sf.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>.

That's not "for some reason" but "I am asking shell to split", and

	sh -c '"$@"' ignoreme <editor> <files>...

would work better ;-).