From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-git-previous-revision and cmd.exe Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:53 +0200 Message-ID: <838uj44z7e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bno5bwir.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416566261 14121 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 10:37:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:37:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 11:37:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrlao-0008FY-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:37:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrlan-0006jW-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrlaO-0006bI-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrlaE-0008SE-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:64320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrlaE-0008Rv-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:36:58 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFD00J00X68XF00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:56 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFD00JPWXHJF660@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83bno5bwir.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177935 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:51:40 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > vc-git-previous-revision appends "^" to a revision to get the previous > one. But "^" is a special character for the Windows cmd.exe shell, so > 'D' in the *vc-change-log* buffer doesn't work if the 'git' command is > actually a batch file that invokes the real Git executable, in which > case we call cmd.exe to run the batch file, and cmd.exe removes the ^ > (because it's the escape character). > > Can we use "~1" instead? If that's bad for Unix, we can do that only > on Windows. Pushed a change to that effect to emacs-24.