From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:54:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: commit when continuing after "edit"
Message-ID: <46F92F26.6050204@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <86ve9y6bvm.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup schrieb:
> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>> I poked around a bit, but one major obstacle is that the assignments
>> in $author_script are on separate lines, which you would have to
>> splice into a single line before you can insert them in the eval.
> 
> Hm?  Why?  Newlines separate assignments just as reliable as spaces
> do.  They are primarily special to the tty as line separators, not the
> shell as such.

The task here is to have the assignments on the same line as the command at 
the end so that they are locally exported. Here we are inside an 'eval', and 
the new-lines *do* what their name suggest: make new lines.

-- Hannes