From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:20:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing path quoting issues
Message-ID: <A7970E82-92E0-4267-AF79-D4ABDB21F0D0@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710121235230.25221@racer.site>

El 12/10/2007, a las 13:37, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 11/10/2007, a las 22:53, David Kastrup escribió:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> +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.

Cheers,
Wincent