# [PATCH] Teach git-status about spaces in file names also on MacOSX

3 messages from 2005-10-10 to 2005-10-10. Participants: Johannes Schindelin, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2059

## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-10-10 20:13

Subject: [PATCH] Teach git-status about spaces in file names also on MacOSX
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510102212230.8106@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0510102212230.8106%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Not that I really understand what Kai's original patch really does, but on
my iBook, sed does not understand '\t' and consequently cuts of every file
name at the first "t" (or backslash...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

---

 git-status.sh |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

applies-to: b7dbad9daef37a781daa3942e9258797f23fa635
ab97728bc4bebd99406cefa55de8530b1fe35620
diff --git a/git-status.sh b/git-status.sh
index 6e2783a..fbdd377 100755
--- a/git-status.sh
+++ b/git-status.sh
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ then
 	sed -e '
 		s/^:// 
 		h
-		s/^[^\t]*//
+		s/^[^	]*//
 		s/ /\\ /g
 		x
-		s/\t.*$//
+		s/	.*$//
 		G
 		s/\n/ /' |
 	report "Updated but not checked in" "will commit"
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ git-diff-files |
 sed -e '
 	s/^:// 
 	h
-	s/^[^\t]*//
+	s/^[^	]*//
 	s/ /\\ /g
 	x
-	s/\t.*$//
+	s/	.*$//
 	G
 	s/\n/ /' |
 report "Changed but not updated" "use git-update-index to mark for commit"
---
0.99.8.GIT

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2005-10-10 20:35

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-status about spaces in file names also on MacOSX
Message-ID: <7vd5md3yb0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd5md3yb0.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510102212230.8106@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Not that I really understand what Kai's original patch really does, but on
> my iBook, sed does not understand '\t' and consequently cuts of every file
> name at the first "t" (or backslash...).

Thanks; not Kai's fault but mine.

```

## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-10-10 20:48

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-status about spaces in file names also on MacOSX
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510102246140.10402@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0510102246140.10402%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
In-Reply-To: <7vd5md3yb0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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Hi,

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Thanks; not Kai's fault but mine.

By saying that I do not really understand Kai's patch, I wanted to make 
clear that maybe I got that fix all wrong ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho

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