Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages

Hello,

while playing with git I found the following bug: if a commit message contains "\n" (as a string, not as a character), git-rebase changes this string into a literal newline character.

This is how to reproduce it:

mkdir tmp cd tmp git init-db echo xx > xx.txt git add xx.txt git commit -m foo echo xx >> xx.txt git add xx.txt git commit -m foo git branch other 'HEAD^' git checkout other echo yy > yy.txt git add yy.txt git commit -m 'foo \\n bar' git log 'HEAD^..' [1] git rebase master git log 'HEAD^..' [2]

The output of [1] is the following (correctly):

commit 694daa542b83dc1bbd6c070630f73c9a111f6e40
Author: Istvan Szekeres <szekeres@iii.hu>
Date:   Fri May 25 23:09:32 2007 +0200

    foo \n bar

The output of [2] is the following (wrong!):
commit 68ba80d2927d4e21c7a1d1d758f9023dbe063bde
Author: Istvan Szekeres <szekeres@iii.hu>
Date:   Fri May 25 22:58:28 2007 +0200

    foo
     bar
....

I think this is a bug.

Best regards, Istvan