On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> 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. > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
