From 3aea1a5a899f5ff34f12d0cd6d8e903ddcfeef3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Sixt Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MinGW: Quote arguments for subprocesses that contain a single-quote Before a process can be spawned by mingw_spawnve, arguments must be surrounded by double-quotes if special characters are present. This is necessary because the startup code of the spawned process will expand arguments that look like glob patterns. "Normal" Windows command line utilities expand only * and ?, but MSYS programs, including bash, are different: They also expand braces, and this has already been taken care of by compat/mingw.c:quote_arg(). But MSYS programs also treat single-quotes in a special way: Arguments between single-quotes are spliced together (with spaces) into a word. With this patch this treatment is avoided by quoting arguments that contain single-quotes. This lets t4252 pass on Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- compat/mingw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index 171fa85e4a..2839d9df6e 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static const char *quote_arg(const char *arg) const char *p = arg; if (!*p) force_quotes = 1; while (*p) { - if (isspace(*p) || *p == '*' || *p == '?' || *p == '{') + if (isspace(*p) || *p == '*' || *p == '?' || *p == '{' || *p == '\'') force_quotes = 1; else if (*p == '"') n++; -- 2.11.4.GIT