Re: Fwd: Unknown option for merge-recursive: -X'diff-algorithm=patience'

From: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2018, 12:34 UTC
Message-ID: <p2l6s0$eot$1@blaine.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJs94Eakp6kaD=+imH2cZdB-=2NCBJNu0Rt=MmRtWiM60QGBSA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

It seems there is some issue with double escaping:

14:57:18.524010 git.c:344 trace: built-in: git 'merge' '--no-log' '--no-ff' '--strategy=recursive' '-X' ''\''diff-algorithm=p atience'\''' '-m' 'Merge branch '\''core-rcu-for-linus'\'' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Where did additional quotes around diff-algorithm came from?

01.01.2018 14:28, Matwey V. Kornilov пишет:

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> Hello,
> 
> I am running git 2.15.1 and facing the following issue with linux kernel
> tree.
> 
> # git checkout v3.8
> # git branch abc-3.8
> # git checkout v3.9
> # git branch abc-3.9
> # git checkout abc-3.8
> 
> Introduce new commit on top of abc-3.8. Here, I edit README.
> 
> # vim README
> # git commit -a -v
> [abc-3.8 4bf088b5d341] Hello world
> 
> Then I try to rebase abc-3.9 on top of abc-3.8 as the following:
> 
> # git rebase --preserve-merges -s recursive -Xdiff-algorithm=patience
> --onto abc-3.8 v3.8 abc-3.9
> 
> And then I see:
> 
> fatal: Unknown option for merge-recursive: -X'diff-algorithm=patience'
> Error redoing merge e84cf5d0fd53badf3a93c790e280cc92a69ed999
> 
> Attached here is GIT_TRACE=1 output.
>