From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:49:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed
Message-ID: <20090118174941.GA22718@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <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