From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:05:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rm: Fix to properly handle files with spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.
Message-ID: <7vu0ao6kip.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602240523l1b10c910q6e5d2e3cef82e306@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/23/06, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
>> +# Setup some files to be removed, some with funny characters
>> +touch -- foo bar baz 'space embedded' 'tab     embedded' 'newline
>> +embedded' -q
>> +git-add -- foo bar baz 'space embedded' 'tab   embedded' 'newline
>> +embedded' -q
>> +git-commit -m "add files"
>
> This doesn't work on some exotic filesystems (ntfs and fat):

Sorry to have applied this without thinking.  Yes, we had
disabled a test that uses tab for this exact reason, but I have
forgotten about it.