Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
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- Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
- Date
- Oct 15, 2007, 06:08 UTC
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- <20071015000347.GA13033@old.davidb.org>
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> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:03:47 -0700 > From: David Brown <git@davidb.org> > Cc: 'Andreas Ericsson' <ae@op5.se>, 'Alex Riesen' <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, > 'git list' <git@vger.kernel.org>, > 'Johannes Schindelin' <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, > 'Make Windows' <make-w32@gnu.org> > > The MS exec* calls just concatenate all of the argv arguments, separating > them with a space into a single buffer.
True.
> If you know what the library on the other end is doing to re-parse the > arguments back into separate strings, it might be possible to quote things > enough to handle names with spaces, but it is hard.
It's not hard, it's just a bit of work. And it needs to be done exactly once.