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

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Message #44 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: npostavs <at> gmail.com, 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, 14 Feb 2020 11:37:57 +0200

> Cc: 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:23:50 +0200
> 
> Eli, what do you think is better, applying a more verbose fix (which 
> prepends stuff to every file name) and spending some of our complexity 
> budged on that.
> 
> Or using the simple fix and documenting the git hooks erratum in the 
> manual (or somewhere else).
> 
> I'm inclining toward the latter, esp. considering that the problem 
> should be familiar to Magit users already, and thus the fix is 
> prominently documented on the Internet.

I also tend towards the latter, especially since (AFAIU) we don't
prevent users from using the Git magic signatures in file-name specs
(where it makes sense), in which case we'd need some code to detect
and combine signatures.

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