bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.02.2020 10:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 02:00:38 +0300
> >
> > I wonder how many other backends commands are broken for files like
> > that: we basically never shell-quote file names.
>
> Whenever we run commands via the shell, the prudent thing is to always
> quote file names (and in general any argument that might include
> wildcard characters).  One advantage of call-process is that you don't
> have to do that.

It's not so simple. FILE already goes through call-process. But Git 
expects a pathspec, not just a file name. So if it's a glob, it is expanded.