From: David Kastrup Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:14:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing path quoting issues Message-ID: <86bqb4qxte.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > >> El 12/10/2007, a las 13:37, Johannes Schindelin escribi?: >> >> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >> > >> > > El 11/10/2007, a las 22:53, David Kastrup escribi?: >> > > >> > > > Johannes Sixt 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. >> > > >> > > +1: especially in this case, where it really is "defensive" and not >> > > "paranoiac". >> > >> > I am all for it, _iff_ the guilty parties (and by that, I mean _you_) do >> > it and keep maintaining it. See? Discussion closed already. >> >> How am *I* the guilty party? I'm merely endorsing David's comment that a >> modicum of defensive programming isn't a bad thing; an eminently >> reasonable position which is somewhat difficult to argue against. > > All I'm saying: let patches speak. Talk is cheap. The patches spoke. That is what the [PATCH] in the subject line was about. -- David Kastrup