Re: [PATCH] Allow passing of --directory to git-am.

On Thursday 04 December 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert 
[off-list ref] wrote about '[PATCH] Allow passing of --directory 
to git-am.':

-	--whitespace)
-		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1=$2"; shift ;;
+	--whitespace|--directory)
+		quot=$(echo "$2" | sed -e "s/'/\\'/g")
+		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1='$quot'"; shift ;;

Test:
bss@monster:~$ echo "don't" | sed -e "s/'/\\'/g"
don't
bss@monster:~$

I'm thinking your sed line doesn't do what you think it does.  You probably 
want something like:
bss@monster:~$ echo "don't" | sed -e "s/'/'\\\\''/g"
don'\''t
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