From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 06:27:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages
Message-ID: <20070526062748.GA21229@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070526061942.GA5986@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:19:42PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

> > Is "\n" portable to all shells (i.e., do you need '\n')? It works with
> > bash and dash, which are by far the most common, but who knows what evil
> > lurks in the heart of Sun?
> 
> You mean the "\n" in printf? Yes that is specified in POSIX.
> Without the "\n" printf will act like echo -n (which incidentally
> is forbidden by POSIX).

No, I meant would the shell, while interpolating a double-quoted string
"\n", always preserve the string and pass the backslash and 'n' to
printf?  Clearly \\ and \" get interpolated, but I don't know the rules
for "unrecognized" backslash sequences.

-Peff