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Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 18, 2009, 17:49 UTC
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<20090118174941.GA22718@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901181843230.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:44:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Oh.  Okay, so I was wrong.  But only because dash's echo behaves in a 
> strange way: it makes "-e" a noop?

Right. "-e" isn't in POSIX at all, and it is a SysV-ism to allow escapes in any argument (I don't know if "-e" was introduced by GNU people, or came from elsewhere).

See here for the gory details:
  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html
-Peff
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Message 14 of 15 in “git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed”
  1. git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failedJonas Flodén, Jan 16, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2009
  3. git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failedJonas Flodén, Jan 16, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2009
  6. Stephan BeyerJan 18, 2009
  7. Stephan BeyerJan 18, 2009
  8. Jeff KingJan 18, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2009
  10. Thomas RastJan 18, 2009
  11. Stephan BeyerJan 18, 2009
  12. Jeff KingJan 18, 2009
  13. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2009
  14. Jeff KingJan 18, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2009

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