Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pathspec: allow escaped query values

From: Brandon Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:53:32 -0800

On 03/09, Jonathan Tan wrote:
> On 03/09/2017 01:07 PM, Brandon Williams wrote:
> >diff --git a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
> >index b5e5a0607..585d17bad 100755
> >--- a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
> >+++ b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
> >@@ -178,4 +178,13 @@ test_expect_success 'abort on asking for wrong magic' '
> > 	test_must_fail git ls-files . ":(attr:!label=foo)"
> > '
> >
> >+test_expect_success 'check attribute list' '
> >+	cat <<-EOF >>.gitattributes &&
> >+	* whitespace=indent,trail,space
> >+	EOF
> >+	git ls-files ":(attr:whitespace=indent\,trail\,space)" >actual &&
> >+	git ls-files >expect &&
> >+	test_cmp expect actual
> >+'
> >+
> > test_done
> 
> Is there a way to verify that `\,` is not escaped by the shell into `,`?

You can run with GIT_TRACE=1 to see the actual string passed to git.
'\,' is indeed passed to git with no problems. 

> 
> Maybe also add tests that show \ as the last character and \
> escaping another \.

Done

-- 
Brandon Williams