Re: git silently ignores include directive with single quotes

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2018, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <87efdik3ie.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <29173fd8-ce72-0927-9bfe-786442dfd82c@stason.org>

On Sun, Sep 23 2018, Stas Bekman wrote:

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> Apologies for I don't know how this project manages issues, so I'm not
> sure whether it is my responsibility to make sure this issue gets
> resolved, or do you have some tracking mechanism where you have it
> registered? There is no rush, I'm asking because the discussion about
> this issue has suddenly dropped about 2 weeks ago, hence my ping.

Posting to this mailing list is generally how it's done, see https://github.com/git/git/blame/v2.19.0/README.md#L30-L37

Git's a project worked on by a bunch of people who're either doing it as a hobby, or are otherwise busy chasing stuff they're planning to work on.

That doesn't mean the issue you reported doesn't matter, just that realistically we have thousands of issues big and small at any given time, and any new reported issue competes with those. There's always too much to do, and too little time to do it.

Personally, I'm interested enough in this to muse about how it could be fixed / what sort of general issues it exposes, but not enough to tackle it myself, the general silence for a couple of weeks means a lot of people share that sentiment (or care even less).

That doesn't mean this issue doesn't matter, or that it couldn't be addressed in some way. I just wanted to try to give you some fair & realistic summary of what's going on.

The best way to fix stuff in git that you can't interest others in is to do it yourself. Take a look at Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the git.git repository for how to do that.

In particular, starting by clarifying the docs around this as I suggested upthread might be a good and easy start to your first contribution to git!

I hope that helps.