From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 23:41:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] t9902-completion: add tests demonstrating issues with quoted pathnames
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 1:32 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>     Do any more new tests need FUNNYNAMES* prereq?
>>
>> Hmph, all of these look like they involve some funnynames ;-)
>
> Well, I can' create a directory with a '|' in its name on FAT32 (on
> Linux), so this needs FUNNYNAMES prereq, too.

Or, on second thought, using a different, more widely usable character
would be better, so the test can be run on more platforms.


>> Do we want to test a more common case of a filename that is two
>> words with SP in between, i.e.
>>
>>         $ >'hello world' && git add hel<TAB>
>>
>> or is it known to work just fine without quoting/escaping (because
>> the funny we care about is output from ls-files and SP is not special
>> in its one-item-at-a-time-on-a-line output) and not worth checking?
>
> This particular case already works, even without this patch series.
>
> The problems start when you want to complete the filename after a space,
> e.g. 'hello\ w<TAB', as discussed in detail in patch 5.  Actually, this
> was the first thing I tried to write a test for, but it didn't work out:
> inside the 'test_completion' helper function the space acts as
> separator, and the completion script then sees 'hello\' and 'w' as two
> separate words.

On another second thought, a test for the already working 'hel<TAB>'
case could make sure that we won't mess up the value of IFS when filling
COMPREPLY.