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Re: t7005-editor.sh failure

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Alexander Pyhalov <apyhalov@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 26, 2018, 10:02 UTC
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2018-09-26 12:52 GMT+03:00 Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>:
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> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 11:00, Alexander Pyhalov <apyhalov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As for sign-off, do I understand correctly that you just want to know
>> that I'm the original author of the code? Yes, it's so.
>
> Right. Plus that you agree that the code (the commit) may be
> redistributed basically forever.
I'm fine with it.
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> I came up with the following commit message. What do you think about it?
>
>     t7005-editor: quote filename to fix whitespace-issue
>
>     Commit 4362da078e (t7005-editor: get rid of the SPACES_IN_FILENAMES
>     prereq, 2018-05-14) removed code for detecting whether spaces in
>     filenames work. Since we rely on spaces throughout the test suite
>     ("trash directory.t1234-foo"), testing whether we can use the filename
>     "e space.sh" was redundant and unnecessary.
>
>     In simplifying the code, though, the commit introduced a regression around
>     how spaces are handled, not in the /name/ of the script, but /in/ the
>     script itself. The editor-script created looks like this:
>
>       echo space >$1
>
>     We will try to execute something like
>
>       echo space >/foo/t/trash directory.t7005-editor/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
>
>     Most shells seem to be able to figure out that the filename doesn't end
>     with "trash" but continues all the way to "COMMIT_EDITMSG", but at least
>     one shell chokes on this.
>
>     Make sure that the editor-script quotes "$1".
>
Looks fine. Thanks.
-- 
С уважением,
Александр Пыхалов
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  1. Alexander PyhalovSep 26, 2018
  2. Martin ÅgrenSep 26, 2018
  3. Alexander PyhalovSep 26, 2018
  4. Martin ÅgrenSep 26, 2018
  5. Alexander PyhalovSep 26, 2018
  6. Eric SunshineSep 26, 2018
  7. Martin ÅgrenSep 26, 2018
  8. SZEDER GáborSep 26, 2018
  9. t7005-editor: quote filename to fix whitespace-issueMartin Ågren, Sep 26, 2018
  10. Taylor BlauSep 26, 2018
  11. Jeff KingSep 26, 2018
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2018
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