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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support for $FILENAMES in tool definitions

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2016, 17:53 UTC
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Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 2016-06-27, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
>> This adds a FILENAMES environment variable, which contains the repository
>> pathnames of all selected files the list.
>> The variable contains the names separated by spaces.
>
> Why not separate filenames with end-of-line character (LF)? It would still
> be broken for some filenames, but only for unportable ones.  Filenames with
> internal space (common on MS Windows) would work then.
>
>   http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html
>  
> If Tcl allows it, you could separate filenames in FILENAMES environment
> variable with NUL ("\0") character...

Tcl may or may not handle a string with an embedded NUL, but I think it is hard to have an embedded NUL in an environment variable.

Use of LF is a good suggestion regardless.
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  1. 1/2 Support for $FILENAMES in tool definitionsAlex Riesen, Jun 27, 2016
  2. 2/2 Ensure the file in the diff pane is always in the list of selected filesAlex Riesen, Jun 27, 2016
  3. Jakub NarębskiJun 27, 2016
  4. Alex RiesenJun 28, 2016
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 27, 2016
  6. Alex RiesenJun 28, 2016
  7. Jakub NarębskiJun 27, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2016
  9. Jakub NarębskiJun 27, 2016
  10. Alex RiesenJun 28, 2016

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