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Re: git rebase -i error message interprets \t in commit message

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2013, 17:47 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> So, it's the shell script.  Now, read about shell escaping [1] and
> submit a patch.

This is not about shell escaping at all. I think the message is fed to echo as-is, or to printf as its first parameter.

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Message 3 of 14 in “git rebase -i error message interprets \t in commit message”
  1. David KastrupAug 6, 2013
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 6, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2013
  4. Matthieu MoyAug 6, 2013
  5. David KastrupAug 6, 2013
  6. Matthieu MoyAug 6, 2013
  7. David KastrupAug 6, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2013
  10. die_with_status: use "printf '%s\n'", not "echo"Matthieu Moy, Aug 6, 2013
  11. Thomas RastAug 7, 2013
  12. Matthieu MoyAug 7, 2013
  13. die_with_status: use "printf '%s\n'", not "echo"Matthieu Moy, Aug 7, 2013
  14. Thomas RastAug 7, 2013

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