From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:01:38 GMT
Subject: Re: nd/magic-pathspec exposes breakage in git-add--interactive on Windows
Message-ID: <CALxABCZaeS9eC50CxeqHLrKm530YXH1TRKtSUQEsd81L3Jxwyg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <521EF02A.2020300@viscovery.net>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> It looks like on Windows we disallow arguments that contain double-quote,
> colon, or asterisk, and otherwise wrap arguments in double-quotes if they
> contain space. Then pass them through qx{}, which I can only guess what it
> does.

Well, the command interpreter of the platform implementation caused
this, I believe.
Quoting of the double quotes for it was too cumbersome for rarely used
combination
(windows, ActiveState Perl, and Git). I guess it is more popular now?