Am 07.02.20 um 18:25 schrieb Wolfgang Scherer:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Am 07.02.20 um 00:00 schrieb Dmitry Gutov:
>> On 06.02.2020 16:59, Wolfgang Scherer wrote:
>>> When a filename contains shell wildcard characters matching one or more files, e.g. `test[56].xx` matching both `test5.xx` and `test6.xx`:
>>> The command `vc-git-state` does not work correctly.
>>>
>>> The attched patch fixes this:
>>>
>>> -        (status (apply #'vc-git--run-command-string file args)))
>>> +        (status (apply #'vc-git--run-command-string (shell-quote-argument file) args)))
>>>
>> Thanks for the report and the patch.
>>
>> I wonder how many other backends commands are broken for files like that: we basically never shell-quote file names.

After some research, it seems that adding a pathspec magic to commands that support this feature is the best solution.

Here is a patch that applies vc-git--literal-pathspec, vc-git--literal-pathspecs to some git commands in vc-git.el. I have tested all augmented commands in the shell and some in emacs.

(defun vc-git--literal-pathspec-inner (pathspec)
  "Prepend :(literal) path magic to PATHSPEC."
  (concat ":(literal)" pathspec))

(defun vc-git--literal-pathspec (pathspec)
  "Prepend :(literal) path magic to PATHSPEC."
  (and pathspec (vc-git--literal-pathspec-inner pathspec)))

(defun vc-git--literal-pathspecs (pathspecs)
  "Prepend :(literal) path magic to PATHSPECS."
  (mapcar #'vc-git--literal-pathspec-inner pathspecs))