Subject: bug#29303: 25.2; vc-git-grep should shell-escape FILES

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:38:20 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:36:09 +0100
> 
> > Ah.  So we lose support of patterns with embedded whitespace in order
> > to support the aliases?  Is that desirable?
> 
> That's a good question. Note that interactively entering patterns with
> a space is currently a pain, since grep-read-files uses
> read-file-name-internal, which attempts to do completion if you type
> <SPC>. So this would presumably only affect people who have changed
> grep-files-aliases and have patterns with embedded whitespace.

Maybe we should mention this in the doc string (assuming that your
proposal indeed fixes the original problem).