It's a problem with the way MinGW parses and passes the command line. When main is called in fossil, the arguments are already expanded. As for the fix, I am not sure yet.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, <fossilscm....@xoxy.net> wrote: > >> @ >> Stephan Beal: So fossil is refusing to eat it's own "dog food" - or >> rather one of its more unique assets: The integrated wiki and ticket >> system? :-) >> > > > This problem is Windows-specific. In every Unix shell "*.css", '*.css" > will be equivalent (they arrive in the app _without_ the quotes). Using > *.css MIGHT be equivalent: most shells will not expand the wildcard unless > there is a match, and if there is no match then they leave it intact (bash > has a configuration option to change this and replace a non-matching > wildcard with an empty string). > > The main difference is that in Unix the shell does a surprising amount of > pre-processing of the CLI args before passing them on the app, meaning that > all apps get a consistent view of CLI args. Windows, OTOH leaves the > developer to do it all himself. > > The dogfood here is without a doubt the Windows "shell". > > >> But since I must accept the culture of the place I'm visiting, perhaps >> you can help out a novice mailman list fellow: Is there any way to only >> receive emails from threads I am participating in? >> > > i haven't used Windows (outside of customer sites and an occasional game > of Empire at War) since last millennium - i can't suggest much of anything > in that regard except maybe to find something more... well, "more." > > :) > > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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