Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:03:47 -0700
> From: David Brown <address@hidden>
> Cc: 'Andreas Ericsson' <address@hidden>, 'Alex Riesen' <address@hidden>,
>       'git list' <address@hidden>,
>       'Johannes Schindelin' <address@hidden>,
>       'Make Windows' <address@hidden>
> 
> The MS exec* calls just concatenate all of the argv arguments, separating
> them with a space into a single buffer.

True.

> If you know what the library on the other end is doing to re-parse the
> arguments back into separate strings, it might be possible to quote things
> enough to handle names with spaces, but it is hard.

It's not hard, it's just a bit of work.  And it needs to be done
exactly once.