From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] t: fix quotes tests for --pathspec-from-file
Message-ID: <20191231002607.GC13606@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSSqAxuHYg9DxuJzC7m2HAt8F2YPNxT0x5+SksCGic4MA@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine wrote:

> But is the "no newline" bit indeed intentional? If not, then a simple
> echo would be even easier (though with a bit more escaping):
>
>     echo "\"file\101.t\"" | git checkout --pathspec-from-file=- HEAD^1 &&

For portability, that would be

	printf "%s\n" "\"file\101.t\"" | ...

because some implementations of echo interpret escapes by default.

Thanks,
Jonathan