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24.0.50; (vc-git) stash@{n} - requires shell quoting?

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Message #44 received at 9480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 9480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9480: 24.0.50; (vc-git) stash@{n} - requires shell quoting?
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:54:07 -0400

> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,  9480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:47:00 +0530
> 
> > So it's a mystery why this happens with the Cygwin Bash.  Jambunathan,
> > could you perhaps post a question to the Cygwin mailing list?
> 
> (setenv "CYGWIN" "noglob") 
> 
> solves the reported problem.
> 
> I was led to try the above option based on the below post which is
> fairly recent: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-07/msg00218.html

Thanks.  This unlocks the mystery.  I think we can now close the bug
report, do you agree?  Perhaps etc/PROBLEMS should advise Cygwin users
to set CYGWIN=noglob (as I understand the default is CYGWIN=glob).

I still don't understand why GLOB_BRACE causes "{0}" be expanded --
that sounds like a bug in the implementation of `glob' used by Cygwin,
no?  Perhaps a Cygwin bug report is in order.

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