[darcs-devel] darcs patch: default_content is now more robust
(and 3 more)
dagit at eecs.oregonstate.edu
dagit at eecs.oregonstate.edu
Thu Aug 11 09:27:17 PDT 2005
Quoting Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
> > It's this sort of complexity that originally made me want to not try to
> > emulate shell parsing behavior.
>
> I agree. We need some sort of quoting for when arguments have spaces in,
> right? So how about we only allow " and allow anything to be escaped
> anywhere with \? I think anything else would be, overall, more
> confusing and not much more helpful.
Emulating the shell is going to come back to bite us rather often I fear.
Especially since shells are different on different platforms but our
implementation would be assuming a particular shell.
I'll implement it the way you suggest.
Thanks,
Jason
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