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From: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Alexander Pyhalov" <apyhalov@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: t7005-editor.sh failure
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:23:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0heSrajoYrkta3+uZJnH32mWsL7vKiYYmEzZ3h+GAeuMQPSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR8KyeihQbUbSP7Awz+NTbf8c3r-ZE9w2wjnvvEpU0gDg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 13:59, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> This description of the behavior is misleading (actually, actively
> wrong).

Hmm, that's bad, my apologies.

>     echo foo bar >cow
>     echo >cow foo bar
>     echo foo >cow bar
>
> That is, they all create a file named "cow" with content "foo bar".

Somehow I knew that, as in "I've seen that before", but I guess I've
never thought about it long enough to really incorporate it.

> So, in your example:
>
>     echo space >/foo/t/trash directory.t7005-editor/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
>
> what is actually happening is that it is creating a file named
> "/foo/t/trash" with content "space
> directory.t7005-editor/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG".

Thanks for clarifying.

> As for the "ambiguous redirect" diagnostic, that seems to be Bash
> trying to be helpful in reporting what is likely a programming error
> (that is, forgetting to double-quote the expansion).

I see that SZEDER has posted some interesting reading. I'll make sure I
understand this better before coming back to this later today.

Thanks
Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-26 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-26  6:52 t7005-editor.sh failure Alexander Pyhalov
2018-09-26  7:59 ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-26  9:00   ` Alexander Pyhalov
2018-09-26  9:52     ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-26 10:02       ` Alexander Pyhalov
2018-09-26 11:59       ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-26 13:23         ` Martin Ågren [this message]
2018-09-26 12:11       ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-26 16:14         ` [PATCH] t7005-editor: quote filename to fix whitespace-issue Martin Ågren
2018-09-26 18:14           ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 19:21           ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 18:16         ` t7005-editor.sh failure Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 19:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 19:29             ` Andrei Rybak
2018-09-27 20:53             ` SZEDER Gábor

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