# [PATCH RESEND] git-gui: Fix merge conflict display error when filename contains spaces

2 messages from 2009-03-20 to 2009-03-20. Participants: Jens Lehmann, Markus Heidelberg.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18429

## Jens Lehmann, 2009-03-20 07:52

Subject: [PATCH RESEND] git-gui: Fix merge conflict display error when filename contains spaces
Message-ID: <49C34B5A.2040807@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/49C34B5A.2040807%40web.de

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When a merge conflict occurs in a file with spaces in the filename, git-gui showed wrongly "LOCAL: deleted".

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
---

Resending this patch, as i have not received any reply so far.

To reproduce the error with git 1.6.2.1.136.g8e24, i used the following commands:
  mkdir spaces
  cd spaces/
  git init
  echo "a" >file\ with\ spaces
  git add file\ with\ spaces 
  git commit -m a .
  git checkout -b b
  echo "b" >file\ with\ spaces
  git commit -m b .
  git checkout master
  echo "c" >file\ with\ spaces
  git commit -m c .
  git merge b
  git gui
git gui doesn't show the conflict markers as it should, displaying "LOCAL: deleted" instead (but an older git-gui works as expected).

Jens

 git-gui/lib/mergetool.tcl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui/lib/mergetool.tcl b/git-gui/lib/mergetool.tcl
index eb2b4b5..3e1b42b 100644
--- a/git-gui/lib/mergetool.tcl
+++ b/git-gui/lib/mergetool.tcl
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ proc merge_load_stages {path cont} {
 	set merge_stages(3) {}
 	set merge_stages_buf {}
 
-	set merge_stages_fd [eval git_read ls-files -u -z -- $path]
+	set merge_stages_fd [eval git_read ls-files -u -z -- {$path}]
 
 	fconfigure $merge_stages_fd -blocking 0 -translation binary -encoding binary
 	fileevent $merge_stages_fd readable [list read_merge_stages $merge_stages_fd $cont]
-- 
1.6.2.1.215.g5d16f

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## Markus Heidelberg, 2009-03-20 20:11

Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] git-gui: Fix merge conflict display error when filename contains spaces
Message-ID: <200903202111.56090.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200903202111.56090.markus.heidelberg%40web.de
In-Reply-To: <49C34B5A.2040807@web.de>

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Jens Lehmann, 20.03.2009:
> When a merge conflict occurs in a file with spaces in the filename,
> git-gui showed wrongly "LOCAL: deleted".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
> ---
> 
> Resending this patch, as i have not received any reply so far.

You should send git-gui patches to Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
since he is the maintainer, and CCing the git list.
This will raise the chance of a reply. Or maybe it will simply be
commited to http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git without a reply.

Markus

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