Re: [PATCH v12 03/13] ref-filter: introduce the ref_formatting_state stack machinery

> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Speaking of quote_value, The quote doesn't work well with color's
>> for e.g.
>> git for-each-ref --shell --format="%(color:green)%(refname)"
>> '''refs/heads/allow-unknown-type'''
>> Seems like an simple fix, probably after GSoC I'll do this :)
>
> Anyway, the %(color) is really meant to be displayed on-screen, and the
> quoting is really meant to feed the value to another program, so I can
> hardly imagine a use-case where you would want both.
>
> But the current behavior seems fine to me: the color escape sequence is
> quoted, which is good. For example, you can
>
> x=$(git for-each-ref --shell --format="nocolor%(color:green)%(refname)" | head -n 1)
> sh -c "echo $x"
>
> it will actually display "nocolor" without color, then a green refname.
> I'm not sure the quoting is really necessary, but it doesn't harm and it
> makes sense since the escape sequence contains a '[' which is a shell
> metacharacter.
>