From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:40:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing path quoting issues
Message-ID: <85tzoxqqi0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710112227000.4174@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>
>> On 11 Oct 2007, at 21:53, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>> > 
>> > > Jonathan del Strother schrieb:
>> > > > How are you going to test that git works on paths with spaces if the
>> > > > test suite doesn't run there?
>> > > 
>> > > By writing a specific test?
>> > 
>> > This is going to be much less thorough.  And it does no harm if the 
>> > test scripts demonstrate defensive programming.
>
> We do not have _extensive_ tests.  We want to do some coding in
> addition to waiting for our machines to finish the test.  D'oh.

A good reason for not requiring special tests just for spaces.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum