Re: [RFC/PATCH] pathspec: allow escaped query values

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2016, 18:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWQYRbV_Oc-xCKE2R_O=aMBm_g_CLB=RPUam7EtbGPTgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <57507DFD.6010800@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:

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>> That would be workable, I would think.  Before attr:VAR=VAL
>> extention, supported pathspec <magic> were only single lowercase-ascii
>> alphabet tokens, so nobody would have used " as a part of magic.  So
>> quting with double-quote pair would work.
>
> I was thinking about both ' and ", so that you could do:

Yes, I understood your suggestion as such. Quoting like shells would work without breaking backward compatibility for the same reason quoting with double-quote and backslash only without supporting single-quotes would work.