Re: [BUG] git gui blame fails for multi-word textconv filter
Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:
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>Le 04/08/2010 21:25, Kirill Smelkov a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use
>>
>> [diff "astextplain"]
>> textconv = run-mailcap --action=cat
>>
>> in my ~/.gitconfig, and this works for git `git blame` because of 41a457
>> in git.git (textconv: use shell to run helper), but fails with git gui:
>>
>> $ git gui blame 21980.2--ИМС-МР231.doc
>> Error in startup script: couldn't execute "run-mailcap --action=cat": no such file or directory
>>
>I wonder if spaces can be the reason of this. Looks like Tcl is
>looking for an executable called "run-mailcap --action=cat", and
>doesn't distinguish path from options.
indeed. We passed a 2-element list and the first element is the
command. To permit this we need to append the pathname to the command
instead.
open |[linsert $path 0 $cmd_plus_args_list]
is a safe way to do that.
I should have thought of that too and not just repos with spaces in the path.
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