Re: git-clean fails to remove a file whose name contains \\, ", or \n, TAB, etc.

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

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"Jim" == Jim Meyering [off-list ref] writes:

Jim> Not that it matters (or maybe this is a feature :-), because people
Jim> who create such files in their working directory deserve what they
Jim> get, Eh? :-)

The problem is the newline in the string, since

  git-ls-files --others --directory $excl ${excl_info:+"$excl_info"} -- "$@" |
  while read -r file; do

is using newline as a delimiter.  Any file with a newline would mess this up.

Not being a shell programming expert, is there a way we could use -z and xargs
-0 here instead?

Funny that we had this discussed on this list a few days ago
;-).