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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes•za.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-mergetool to handle paths with a leading space
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:18:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vodbz5ka9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47809E7E.2090708@dawes.za.net> (Rogan Dawes's message of "Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:25:18 +0200")

Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes•za.net> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes•za.net>
>
> ---
> I am working on a project which has the root directory constructed
> with a leading space. i.e. ./ dir/. "read" skips the leading space
> char, and ends up with an incorrect filename, which can then not be
> found. Setting IFS=\n solves this problem.

Does the project have a file that has letter 'n' (en) in its name?
Have you tested your patch while having a conflict in that file?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06  9:25 [PATCH] Allow git-mergetool to handle paths with a leading space Rogan Dawes
2008-01-06 10:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-06 10:51   ` Rogan Dawes
2008-01-06 11:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-07  7:37       ` Rogan Dawes
2008-01-07  9:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-08  1:19           ` Theodore Tso

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