Subject: [PATCH] add--interactive: fix external command invocation on Windows

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:24:47 +0200

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>

Back in 21e9757e (Hack git-add--interactive to make it work with
ActiveState Perl, 2007-08-01), the invocation of external commands was
changed to use qx{} on Windows. The rationale was that the command
interpreter on Windows is not a POSIX shell, but rather Windows's CMD.
That patch was wrong to include 'msys' in the check whether to use qx{}
or not: 'msys' identifies MSYS perl as shipped with Git for Windows,
which does not need the special treatment; qx{} should be used only with
ActiveState perl, which is identified by 'MSWin32'.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
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Am 9/2/2013 13:56, schrieb Duy Nguyen:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Which features do we lose on Windows with the previous patch and this fixup?
> 
> New pathspec magic :(glob), :(literal) and :(icase). You can still use
> them via --*-pathspecs or equivalent env variables. You just can't
> enable them per individual pathspec.

I think this here is the correct "solution" rather than the special cases
for Windows that you proposed. ActiveState perl users would still suffer,
but that is a problem of the run_cmd_pipe implementation, which would
need a smarter method to quote the arguments before it feeds them to qx{}.

 git-add--interactive.perl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index 75a991f..5156384 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ my %patch_modes = (
 my %patch_mode_flavour = %{$patch_modes{stage}};
 
 sub run_cmd_pipe {
-	if ($^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'msys') {
+	if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
 		my @invalid = grep {m/[":*]/} @_;
 		die "$^O does not support: @invalid\n" if @invalid;
 		my @args = map { m/ /o ? "\"$_\"": $_ } @_;
-- 
1.8.4.1549.gc059550.dirty

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