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

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:43:51 -0500

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> It's not so simple. FILE already goes through call-process. But Git
> expects a pathspec, not just a file name. So if it's a glob, it is
> expanded.

You can pass --literal-pathspecs to tell git not to expand.  Magit does
this.  But there is a downside due to the way git implements it, which
is by setting an environment variable: it affects all subprocesses git
calls, including git-hook scripts which tends to trip people up.

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