Re: [PATCH] Fix 'Cloning into' message

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2011, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvcraz64i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1319734013-8956-1-git-send-email-richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>

Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> writes:

Show 15 quoted lines

> Without this patch,
>
>     git clone foo .
>
> results in this:
>
>     Cloning into ....
>     done.
>
> With it:
>
>     Cloning into '.'...
>     done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>

We try to be consistent and many places do quote user supplied paths in pair of single quotes in human readable messages, and this is in line with that pattern.

    $ git clone foo "joey's foo"

would result in

    Cloning into 'joey's foo'...

but that is probably Ok ;-)

Thanks.