On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 05:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Or are we sure that this can't work in POSIX (or non-POSIX shells)? > > You need to implement the same logic to tokenize enough to understand the > expansion the shell does inside dq. ÂYes, shell is general programming > language and you can theoretically implement it, but would the result be a > practical solution? ÂI doubt it. I'll write a better commit message and re-send this soon (after some other comments have trickled in). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html