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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9480@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9480: 24.0.50; (vc-git) stash@{n} - requires shell quoting?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:28:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8162kv1jcc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dvcswl2w9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:21:10 -0400")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> This should generally work fine, except that IMO globbing in this case
>> is simply buggy: the braces are removed although a real shell would
>> expand "{0}" into itself.
>
> I agree.

Glenn
Thanks for the reference note. I will file a bug report with Cygwin very
soon.

Eli
Feel free to close this bug.

> http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/bash.html#Brace-Expansion
>
>   A correctly-formed brace expansion must contain unquoted opening and
>   closing braces, and at least one unquoted comma or a valid sequence
>   expression. Any incorrectly formed brace expansion is left unchanged.
>
> http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/FAQ
>
> Bash FAQ D2:
>
> D2) Why doesn't bash treat brace expansions exactly like csh?
>
>     The only difference between bash and csh brace expansion is that
>     bash requires a brace expression to contain at least one unquoted
>     comma if it is to be expanded.  Any brace-surrounded word not
>     containing an unquoted comma is left unchanged by the brace
>     expansion code.  This affords the greatest degree of sh
>     compatibility.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12  7:09 bug#9480: 24.0.50; (vc-git) stash@{n} - requires shell quoting? Jambunathan K
2011-09-12  7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-12  9:05   ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-12 10:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-12 11:22       ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-12 11:50         ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-12 11:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13  4:46             ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-13  1:39         ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-13  4:03       ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-13  4:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13  5:14           ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-13  6:17           ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-13  6:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13 18:05               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-13 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-13 15:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-13 18:21     ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-14 10:58       ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2011-09-14 11:57         ` Eli Zaretskii

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