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Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: use 'read -r' to avoid backslash acting as an escape character

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jul 8, 2010, 10:35 UTC
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<20100708103552.GF31048@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:29:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Our patches do seem to fix the reading side of the issue, but I am not
> sure if the writing side needs further fix.  If I recall, the script had
> liberal use of "echo $var"; some implementations of echo interprets
> backslash sequence without being asked with an explicit "-e".

Possibly, I just have the bash builtin and the coreutils echo here, both are writing \t properly without -e.

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  1. rebase -i: use 'read -r' to avoid backslash acting as an escape characterMiklos Vajna, Jul 6, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2010
  3. Miklos VajnaJul 7, 2010
  4. Santi BéjarJul 7, 2010
  5. Miklos VajnaJul 7, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2010
  7. Miklos VajnaJul 8, 2010
  8. [RFC] war on echo in scriptsJonathan Nieder, Jul 8, 2010
  9. Andreas SchwabJul 8, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederJul 9, 2010
  11. Sverre RabbelierJul 9, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederJul 9, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2010
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 9, 2010
  16. Jonathan NiederJul 9, 2010

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