maint: fix public-submodule-commit to work with newer git

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+2014-01-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>
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+       maint: fix public-submodule-commit to work with newer git
+       * top/maint.mk (public-submodule-commit): Remove excess quoting.
+       We were over-quoting the test arguments, and somewhere prior to
+       version 1.8.5.2.229, git stopped removing those excess quotes,
+       which made the test fail, since the unexpanded strings would
+       always differ; using GIT_TRACE=1 confirmed that the git merge-base
+       command wasn't even being run.
+
 2014-01-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
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