bug#16843: Error caused due to regression in git

[Darshit Shah]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

On 02/24/2014 07:00 AM, Eric Blake wrote:

>
> Based on the test that is failing, can you please show the output of:
>
>   git submodule --quiet foreach echo 'a  b' '"c  d"'
>
> On my version (1.8.5.3), I get 'a b c  d' (that is, echo saw three
> arguments rather than 2, where only my 'c  d' argument survived because
> it was double-quoted).  I'm guessing your version preserves extra
> quotes, because it is not being passed through a layer of shell
> interpretation?

What about:

  git submodule --quiet foreach 'echo a  b "c  d" "$sha1"'

That is, does presenting the entire command as a single argument to git
still manage to interpolate the shell variable and preserve the double
space between c and d while doing word splitting between a and b?

The first command:
git submodule --quiet foreach echo 'a  b' '"c  d"'

gives the output: a  b "c  d"

Where there is a double space between a and b while c and d still retain their quotes.

The second command:
git submodule --quiet foreach 'echo a  b "c  d" "$sha1"'

Gives the output:
a b c  d 0ac90c5a98030c998f3e1db3a0d7f19d4630b6b6

So, it does seem to do word splitting between a and b, while retaining the double space between c and d.

 

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah