From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 06:07:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [TopGit PATCH] tg-graph: print dependency graph like git log --graph
Message-ID: <36ca99e90905192307m67c11b83y7af44ccdb48f43e0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090519184402.GA27352@pengutronix.de>

2009/5/19 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:
> Hi Bert,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 03:33:16PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 15:28, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>> > also sprach Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> [2009.05.19.0744 +0200]:
>> >> @@ -62,12 +70,33 @@ git for-each-ref refs/top-bases |
>> >>                       continue
>> >>               fi
>> >>               if [ -n "$graphviz" ]; then
>> >> +
>> >> +                     if [ -n "$graphviz_verbose" ]; then
>> >> +                             type="header"
>> >> +                             lines=0
>> >> +                             echo "\t\"$name\" ["
>> >
>> > You need to pass -e to echo for it to honour escape sequences. That
>> > should solve Michael's problem. Alternatively, just use ^I directly.
>> Correct, thanks. Looks like a feature from bash or dash to honor
>> escape sequences without -e'
> quoting
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Limitations-of-Builtins.html#Limitations-of-Builtins:
>
>        It is not possible to use `echo' portably unless both options
>        and escape sequences are omitted.
>
> ... use printf instead.
Thank you for this valuable link, Will switch to printf.

Bert
>
> Best regards
> Uwe