GNU bug report logs - #39452
[PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Wolfgang Scherer <Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 14:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:57:54 +0200

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 02:00:38 +0300
> 
> I wonder how many other backends commands are broken for files like 
> that: we basically never shell-quote file names.

Whenever we run commands via the shell, the prudent thing is to always
quote file names (and in general any argument that might include
wildcard characters).  One advantage of call-process is that you don't
have to do that.
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