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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: "Herring\, Davis" <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: git log question
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:37:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9njde9d.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1512052131264.83410@lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Thu,  30 Nov 2017 14:28:51 +0000")

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:28:51 +0000 "Herring, Davis" <herring@lanl.gov> wrote:

>> The same thing with `git log --branches=master <commit> -1'
>> and `git log --branches="master" <commit> -1' (I couldn't tell
>> from the doc if the branch name should be quoted, but it
>> made no difference).
>
> Quoting is handled by the shell (except perhaps on Windows).  Since branch
> names never have characters in them that are special to the shell (by design
> of Git), the quoting does nothing.

Thanks for clarifying (I should have thought of that myself, oh well).

Steve Berman



  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30 10:00 git log question Stephen Berman
2017-11-30 11:30 ` Mathias Megyei
2017-11-30 12:02   ` Stephen Berman
2017-11-30 13:15     ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-30 14:19       ` Stephen Berman
2017-11-30 14:59         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-30 15:05         ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-30 15:05         ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-30 15:21           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-30 15:25             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-30 15:35             ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-30 17:46             ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-11-30 17:59               ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-30 17:06         ` Davis Herring
2017-11-30 19:11           ` Stephen Berman
2017-11-30 14:28 ` Herring, Davis
2017-11-30 14:37   ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2017-11-30 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-30 19:10   ` Stephen Berman

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