From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 18:54:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFD 4/3] t7300: Tests for git-clean using filenames with spaces/punctuation
Message-ID: <7vr6ptbx5g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <463E19F6.9000906@uwaterloo.ca>

Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> Is this even properly solvable without making clean a builtin or
> writing git-unescape?

If you know how to use "xargs -0" and are willing to depend on
the -0 GNU extension, then the answer is yes.

I do not use git-clean myself, as I do not see what (I think) it
tries to solve as a problem to begin with, so obviously I do not
care too deeply about the command's implementation --- I just
let it be there because there seem to be others who want it ---
but if I were asked an advice on the right direction to proceed,
I would probably suggest rewriting it in C.