On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:10:04AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > - git clone --bare . xxx:yyy.git && > > + git clone --bare . xxx${path_sep}yyy.git && > > Don't you want to dq the whole thing to prevent the shell from > splitting this into two commands at ';'? The other one below is OK. After expansion, I don't think the shell will do any further processing except for whitespace splitting. E.g.: $ debug() { for i in "$@"; do echo "got $i"; done; } $ sep=';' $ space=' ' $ debug foo${sep}bar got foo;bar $ debug foo${space}bar got foo got bar I don't mind quoting it to make it more obvious, though. -Peff