Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: >>> @@ -155,8 +156,9 @@ do >>> ;; >>> --resolvemsg) >>> shift; resolvemsg=$1 ;; >>> - --whitespace) >>> - git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1=$2"; shift ;; >>> + --whitespace|--directory) >>> + quot=$(echo "$2" | sed -e "s/'/'\\\''/g") >> >> Why not simply use "git rev-parse --sq"? > > What I need is to convert $2 into a form suitable for quoting, does git > rev-parse --sq do that? $ git rev-parse --sq -- "don't do that" '--' 'don'\''t do that' Without terminating newline. The '--' is needed because otherwise git-rev-parse expects revisions... and doesn't find any. By the way you could both simplify option parsing _and_ take care of proper quoting by using --parseopt, i.e. use git-rev-parse in PARSEOPT mode. But that is more involved change. >>> @@ -454,7 +456,7 @@ do >>> >>> case "$resolved" in >>> '') >>> - git apply $git_apply_opt --index "$dotest/patch" >>> + eval git apply $git_apply_opt --index '"$dotest/patch"' >> >> Why eval? > > I quoted the above variable, so I now need to unquote it, that's done by eval. Ah. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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