git: browsing paths with spaces when using the start command

msysGit issue 258 tracks a problem opening a browser onto file
paths that contain spaces or parentheses when calling the
web--browse script. This patch modifies how the start command is
called to solve this.

Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-web--browse.sh b/git-web--browse.sh
index 7ed0faddcd75e024ce18d8b80994d41a9207a7ca..4f5c740df5651853e575ba68366152992b0f043d 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-web--browse.sh
+++ b/git-web--browse.sh
@@ -161,9 +161,12 @@ case "$browser" in
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
-    w3m|links|lynx|open|start)
+    w3m|links|lynx|open)
        eval "$browser_path" "$@"
        ;;
+    start)
+        exec "$browser_path" '"web-browse"' "$@"
+        ;;
     dillo)
        "$browser_path" "$@" &
        ;;