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cg-commit path handling problem

Subject: cg-commit path handling problem

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One message between May 4, 2006 and May 4, 2006.

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Christian Jaeger· May 4, 2006, 15:12 UTC · lore
Hello

I did create a repository from a directory containing, amongst other stuff, files starting with a $ sign. E.g.

$ find ./foo ./bar ./var/cache ./var/cache/$foo ./var/cache/$foo::bar ./var/cache/$baz

$ cg-init ...

Now I realized that I didn't want the var directory in the repository and did

$ cg-rm -r var $ cg-commit var

which worked without warning, but:

$ cg-status .. D var/cache/$foo D var/cache/$foo::bar D var/cache/$baz

So I try again:
$ cg-commit var

will open the editor with the $.. files in the CG: part, I enter a commit message, exit the editor, it sayys "Refusing to make an empty commit".

$ cg-commit -f var
says "committed as ....", but cg-status will still show the same files as D
As per suggestion from #git, I did the equivalent of
find var -name '$*' |xargs git commit -m please_go_away --
which worked.

So I guess that the cg-commit shell script isn't protecting file paths against variable substitution somewhere.

This is cogito-0.17.2 and git 1.2.6 (from Debian unstable rebuilt on Sarge).

Thanks for caring, Christian.

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