On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 04:23:13PM +0300, Dmitry Nikulin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 13:16, Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not sure why the last argument is being split in > > your example. It is not split in the example below > > I have replicated the splitting issue on my small demo repo [1]: > > $ env GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=./print_argv.py git diff -M origin/branch1 > origin/branch1-mv -- file1.txt file1-mv.txt > ['./print_argv.py', > 'file1.txt', > '/tmp/EWaCSc_file1.txt', > '2bef330804cb3f6962e45a72a12a3071ee9b5888', > '100644', > '/tmp/mtEiSc_file1-mv.txt', > 'f8fd6737fbe5a45c97ba9c9de495dc46ff11eccd', > '100644', > 'file1-mv.txt', > 'similarity index 90%\n' > 'rename from file1.txt\n' > 'rename to file1-mv.txt\n' > 'index 2bef330..f8fd673 100644\n'] Another Python 2 vs 3 issue, perhaps? # Python2, good: $ GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF='python2 ./print_argv.py' git --no-pager diff -M origin/branch1 origin/branch1-mv -- file1.txt file1-mv.txt ['./print_argv.py', 'file1.txt', '/tmp/ViB58B_file1.txt', '2bef330804cb3f6962e45a72a12a3071ee9b5888', '100644', '/tmp/p6OH9B_file1-mv.txt', 'f8fd6737fbe5a45c97ba9c9de495dc46ff11eccd', '100644', 'file1-mv.txt', 'similarity index 90%\nrename from file1.txt\nrename to file1-mv.txt\nindex 2bef330..f8fd673 100644\n'] # Python3, bad: $ GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF='python3 ./print_argv.py' git --no-pager diff -M origin/branch1 origin/branch1-mv -- file1.txt file1-mv.txt ['./print_argv.py', 'file1.txt', '/tmp/5xD2DS_file1.txt', '2bef330804cb3f6962e45a72a12a3071ee9b5888', '100644', '/tmp/vvHQGS_file1-mv.txt', 'f8fd6737fbe5a45c97ba9c9de495dc46ff11eccd', '100644', 'file1-mv.txt', 'similarity index 90%\n' 'rename from file1.txt\n' 'rename to file1-mv.txt\n' 'index 2bef330..f8fd673 100644\n'] Let's just stick to plain old printf for now, as suggested by Phillip earlier, to reduce unnecessary confusion.
