From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:15:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section
Message-ID: <7vy739nbmp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <lh6XIUcjpbjj8G8Ot7RQFlDitUn1njsc350QhnNmQkcgxlfluBPGZw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> There are problems here with spaces, single quotes, and double quotes.
> I'll follow up in another email.

I guess we've opened up a large can of worms.  Let's have the minimum fix
that says "We do support whitespace in these paths but no other funnies"
and leave the more intrusive one for post 1.6.0, for now.