On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
This would not fly well, I am afraid. --exclude=* are usually
shell globs which would be expanded before you use them
unquoted.
Good point. However, since it's unlikely that anybody will use it, maybe
it's not important - more of a "this is how you could do it if you fixed
the globbing problem" ;)
It's easy enough to fix if you use bash array variables, but I thought
adding that was not supposed to be done? Or have people resigned
themselves to bash extensions ;)
Linus