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Re: BUG: "git stash apply <arg>" broken, "git-stash apply <arg>" works

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EREric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2008, 11:17 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin <at> gmx.de> writes:
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> 
> This is most likely an issue with MSys, not Git.  As far as I know, 
> Steffen started to have a look at it, but I do not really know: I took my 
> retreat from msysGit.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>

Not surprisingly this was exactly right, and I just posted a patch on http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ which fixes it. It turns out that command lines passed to CreateProcess() which contain '{' need to be quoted (specifically quote_arg() needs to set 'force_quotes' to 1).

Thanks for the pointer.
- Eric
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  1. Eric RaibleJun 4, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJun 5, 2008
  3. Eric RaibleJun 5, 2008

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