From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:18:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-mergetool to handle paths with a leading space
Message-ID: <7vodbz5ka9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47809E7E.2090708@dawes.za.net>

Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes.za.net> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes.za.net>
>
> ---
> I am working on a project which has the root directory constructed
> with a leading space. i.e. ./ dir/. "read" skips the leading space
> char, and ends up with an incorrect filename, which can then not be
> found. Setting IFS=\n solves this problem.

Does the project have a file that has letter 'n' (en) in its name?
Have you tested your patch while having a conflict in that file?