Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rev-parse: add --sq-quote to shell quote arguments

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:33:09 +0200

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Not very readable.  A better example might be to demonstrate something
> like this:
> 
> 	$ cat >your-git-script.sh <<\EOF
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	# quote user-supplied arguments
> 	args=$(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")
>         # and use it inside a handcrafted command line
>         command="git frotz -n24 $args"
>         eval "$command"
> 	EOF
> 
> 	$ sh your-git-script.sh "a b'c"
> 
> i.e, put stress on how to use it, not on how it works internally.

Hmm, that makes me wonder why we special-case shell-quoting and implement
it in an executable. Why don't we have perl-quoting, C-quoting,
PHP-quoting, $language-of-your-choice quoting, etc, too?

I think we should simply move sq() from git-am to git-sh-setup and use
that in git-bisect.

-- Hannes