Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 26, 2007, 07:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20070526074703.GA2563@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070526073855.GA6395@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:38:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

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> Yep.  Section 2.2.3 says that the backslash within double quotes will
> only serve as an escape character for $, `, ", \ and <newline>.  Of
> course, you can always use a single quote instead, i.e.,
> 
> printf '%s\n' "$VAR"
> 
> Then there can be no doubt :)

Right, I wasn't sure if the single quotes were necessary, but it looks like Junio's version (with doublequotes) is also fine according to POSIX. Thanks again.

-Peff