On Fri, Oct 19 2018, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:28:22AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> > - string_list_append(&cmd_list, *argv[0]); >> > + add_cmd_history(&env, &cmd_list, *argv[0]); >> > >> > /* >> > * It could be an alias -- this works around the insanity >> >> Just to sanity check an assumption of mine: One thing I didn't do is use >> sq_quote_buf() and sq_dequote_to_argv() like we do for >> CONFIG_DATA_ENVIRONMENT. This is because in the case of config we need >> to deal with: >> >> $ git config alias.cfgdump >> !env >> $ git -c x.y=z -c "foo.bar='baz'" cfgdump|grep baz >> GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS='x.y=z' 'foo.bar='\''baz'\''' >> >> But in this case I don't see how a command-name would ever contain >> whitespace. So we skip quoting and just delimit by space. > > Alias names cannot currently contain whitespace, because it's not > allowed in the key. However, we've discussed making the syntax > alias.<name>.command, which would then make it possible. > > Whether anyone would use that is a different question, but hey, > apparently some people think "My Documents" is a good name for a > directory. ;) I'll just leave this part as it is for now. If we ever have commands with whitespace this'll be the least of our worries.
