Re: Cherrypicking commit e08de2bae2a8e91c0245259dfcbfdca1d191a119 onto emacs-26

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Do., 15. März 2018 um 20:37 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> schrieb am Do., 15. März 2018 um 20:07 Uhr:
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>> > From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
>> > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:34:27 +0000
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>> > would it be OK to cherrypick commit 
>> > e08de2bae2a8e91c0245259dfcbfdca1d191a119 onto the release
>> > branch? It fixes a bug that makes filenotify watches essentially unusable 
>> > with quoted filenames, and is very
>> > short and localized.
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>> How can anything related to quoted file name be urgent to fix?
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> Quoted filenames are a core Emacs function that is prominently documented, 
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> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Quoted-File-Names.html.
>  They are also the only reliable method for external scripts and libraries to 
> ensure that Emacs doesn't mangle a local filename in unpredictable ways. 
> Therefore it's very important that quoted filenames are bugfree.
> Perhaps even more importantly, that commit fixes a regression:
> emacs -Q -batch -l filenotify --eval="(file-notify-rm-watch 
> (file-notify-add-watch \"/:/tmp/\" '(change) 'ignore))"
> works in master and Emacs 25.2, but not with the release branch.

Is it OK to cherrypick commit e08de2bae2a8e91c0245259dfcbfdca1d191a119
for Emacs 26.2? Thanks!