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[PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 14:43:15 +0300

On 07.02.2020 12:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What I wrote was a response to your "we basically never quote".

...file names in vc-git.el because we've been relying on call-process.

> Let
> me correct my perhaps too-general response by saying "the prudent
> thing is to always quote file names, unless the command expects a
> wildcard in that argument".

I would say that differently:

...to always quote files names when the command expects a wildcard, but 
we want the file name to be treated verbatim.

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