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Re: vc-git-previous-revision and cmd.exe
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: vc-git-previous-revision and cmd.exe |
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Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:55:10 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> vc-git-previous-revision appends "^" to a revision to get the previous
> one. But "^" is a special character for the Windows cmd.exe shell, so
> 'D' in the *vc-change-log* buffer doesn't work if the 'git' command is
> actually a batch file that invokes the real Git executable, in which
> case we call cmd.exe to run the batch file, and cmd.exe removes the ^
> (because it's the escape character).
Why is that a problem? process-file should properly quote the arguments
when it needs to go through a shell.
Andreas.
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