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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@cetitec•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support for $FILENAMES in tool definitions
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:53:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7fdabjsb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57716227.1030104@gmail.com> ("Jakub Narębski"'s message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:28:07 +0200")

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail•com> writes:

> On 2016-06-27, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
>> This adds a FILENAMES environment variable, which contains the repository
>> pathnames of all selected files the list.
>> The variable contains the names separated by spaces.
>
> Why not separate filenames with end-of-line character (LF)? It would still
> be broken for some filenames, but only for unportable ones.  Filenames with
> internal space (common on MS Windows) would work then.
>
>   http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html
>  
> If Tcl allows it, you could separate filenames in FILENAMES environment
> variable with NUL ("\0") character...

Tcl may or may not handle a string with an embedded NUL, but I think
it is hard to have an embedded NUL in an environment variable.

Use of LF is a good suggestion regardless.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-27 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-27 13:21 [PATCH 1/2] Support for $FILENAMES in tool definitions Alex Riesen
2016-06-27 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] Ensure the file in the diff pane is always in the list of selected files Alex Riesen
2016-06-27 17:32   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-06-28  8:03     ` Alex Riesen
2016-06-27 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] Support for $FILENAMES in tool definitions Johannes Schindelin
2016-06-28  8:04   ` Alex Riesen
2016-06-27 17:28 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-06-27 17:53   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-06-27 18:09     ` Jakub Narębski
2016-06-28  8:54   ` Alex Riesen

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