From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 00:43:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
Message-ID: <7v62cgenn4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2ehr4sq1q.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Having said that, are we sure that
>>
>> 	printf "add bar\0initial"
>>
>> works per specification, or merely works by accident in some
>> implementation?
>
> Since the backslash is not followed by $ ` " \ <newline> it is not
> special to the shell.

Yeah, but I wasn't worried about what shell does in the first place. I was
worried about what printf(1) does.