From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:59:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] t3700: Skip a test with backslashes in pathspec Message-ID: <7vr60pcj89.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200903221755.44642.j6t@kdbg.org> Johannes Sixt writes: > On Sonntag, 22. März 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I do not think the justification for this change is explained well enough. >> >> The test prepares a file whose name consists of "ef, oh, bra, oh, you, >> ket, bee, ei and are" (no backslashes), and passes a filespec that quotes >> bra and ket with backslash so glob won't misinterpret as if we are asking >> to add "ef oh followed by either oh or you followed by bee ei are". There >> is no path that has a backslash in it involved. >> >> If this does not work on Windows, there is something else going on. Is it >> that the shell eats one level of backslash too much or something? > > I added these two paragraphs: Thanks; pulled.