From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: 39452@debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang.Scherer@gmx.de
Subject: bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:01:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52f47a82-b93e-d9c2-ee94-752b289d4b96@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y2texxso.fsf@gmail.com>
On 07.02.2020 16:43, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> It's not so simple. FILE already goes through call-process. But Git
>> expects a pathspec, not just a file name. So if it's a glob, it is
>> expanded.
>
> You can pass --literal-pathspecs to tell git not to expand. Magit does
> this. But there is a downside due to the way git implements it, which
> is by setting an environment variable: it affects all subprocesses git
> calls, including git-hook scripts which tends to trip people up.
I wonder how bad the latter problem is. After all, even if it happens,
it *can* be worked around in the same scripts.
The patch is much smaller than the proposed alternative:
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
index 61e6c642d1..bbfdbfbe52 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
@@ -1751,6 +1751,7 @@ vc-git-command
(process-environment
(append
`("GIT_DIR"
+ "GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1"
;; Avoid repository locking during background operations
;; (bug#21559).
,@(when revert-buffer-in-progress-p
@@ -1785,6 +1786,7 @@ vc-git--call
(process-environment
(append
`("GIT_DIR"
+ "GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1"
;; Avoid repository locking during background operations
;; (bug#21559).
,@(when revert-buffer-in-progress-p
And if Magit does it, it's probably okay for most of VC users too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-11 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-06 13:59 bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards Wolfgang Scherer
2020-02-06 23:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-07 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 8:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-07 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 11:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-07 14:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-02-11 23:01 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2020-02-12 15:24 ` Noam Postavsky
2021-05-12 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-17 1:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-22 12:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-14 0:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-14 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-15 1:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-27 6:05 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-27 12:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-27 17:10 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-27 19:57 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-28 15:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-28 15:44 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-28 15:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-28 16:02 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-28 22:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-30 2:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-30 13:34 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-30 23:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-27 22:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-29 0:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-29 16:44 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-29 19:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-29 19:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-29 20:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-13 18:34 ` Wolfgang Scherer
2020-02-13 23:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-14 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-14 13:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-14 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-14 14:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-14 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-14 20:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-20 9:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-02-07 17:25 ` Wolfgang Scherer
2020-02-07 22:31 ` Wolfgang Scherer
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