From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
To: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9 v12] difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:53:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr4UbN3izmqa89CCH7OY4c9LOH0S2EbdUCxHK3G6GHd4xQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v62d4692l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Would the following change be better?
>>
>> - my $cmd = "git diff --raw --no-abbrev -z " . join(" ", @ARGV);
>> + my $cmd = "git diff --raw --no-abbrev -z @ARGV";
>
> They look exactly the same to me.
The issue is that this does not properly handle shell characters, IFS, etc.
I think a simple solution would be to use git diff --exit-code --quiet here.
e.g.
my $rc = system('git', 'diff', '--exit-code', '--quiet', @ARGV);
That avoids the shell and properly handles shell meta-characters, IFS, etc.
--
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-13 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-12 13:18 [PATCH 8/9 v12] difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs Tim Henigan
2012-04-12 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-12 19:10 ` Tim Henigan
2012-04-12 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-13 2:53 ` David Aguilar [this message]
2012-04-13 16:31 ` Tim Henigan
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