From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:52:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: remove trailing whitespace from editor template
Message-ID: <21a5cbc3-3d0b-410b-80d0-94e6444f8080@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5xhmvuol.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Junio

On 27/05/2025 18:18, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Should that be " \$"? What you've got seems to work with dash but I'm
>> not sure if it is POSIX compliant or not.
> 
> "2.6 Word Expansions" ends with this sentence:
> 
>      If a '$' that is neither within single-quotes nor escaped by a
>      <backslash> is immediately followed by a <space>, <tab>, or a
>      <newline>, or is not followed by any character, the '$' shall be
>      treated as a literal character.
> 
> Taken together with "2.2.3 Double-Quotes", I'd read it as blessing a
> lone '$' at the end of double-quoted string as a literal dollar sign.

Thanks for finding that - TIL. I agree with your interpretation that the 
original is in fact safe.

Thanks

Phillip