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Clarification on Argument Handling in `Command.make` vs `child_process.spawn`

The way that arguments are used in

Command.make

Command.make

is a little confusing—it seems odd that I have to quote multi-word arguments myself, which I do not have to do in, for example,

child_process.spawn

child_process.spawn

. I can run

spawn('git', ['commit', '--message', 'foo bar baz'])

spawn('git', ['commit', '--message', 'foo bar baz'])

and

foo bar baz

foo bar baz

is treated as a single argument. If I execute

Command.make('git', 'commit', '--message', 'foo bar baz')

Command.make('git', 'commit', '--message', 'foo bar baz')

foo bar baz

foo bar baz

are sent as three separate arguments.