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Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 17, 2008, 16:24 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:44:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Ahh. So that "echo" should just be replaced with a 'printf "%s\n"' 
> instead? 
> 
> We have a _lot_ of "echo"s though. I suspect the only ones we'd ever catch 
> are the ones explicitly tested for. I suspect that the dash echo is just 
> broken.

As Bjorn mentioned, it's POSIX. Junio and I already hunted down quite a few of these, so I think we are OK in general, and this is just a new one that got introduced.

-Peff
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  1. Remi VanicatApr 17, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2008
  3. Björn SteinbrinkApr 17, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2008
  5. Björn SteinbrinkApr 17, 2008
  6. Jeff KingApr 17, 2008
  7. Jeff KingApr 17, 2008
  8. Rémi VanicatApr 17, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2008
  11. Rémi VanicatApr 18, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2008

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