From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:06:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Add tests for git cat-file
Message-ID: <7vk5ilq05l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080425065614.GA5758@untitled>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
>> ---
>>  t/t1006-cat-file.sh |  101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100755 t/t1006-cat-file.sh
>> 
>> diff --git a/t/t1006-cat-file.sh b/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000..15741d9
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
>> @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
>> +#!/bin/sh
>> +
>> +test_description='git cat-file'
>> +
>> +. ./test-lib.sh
>> +
>> +function echo_without_newline()
>
> The "function " keyword is a bashism and not needed, this breaks
> my test run with dash as /bin/sh (same thing in t1007).
>
>> +{
>> +    echo "$@\c"
>
> I guess we have different bash versions/options, because this breaks for
> me in bash (3.1dfsg-8 from Debian etch).  It would need -e to handle to
> handle escape sequence, but that's a bashism, too.
>
> Use printf "$@" here instead.

Looking at the callers, I do not think you want that.  I would suggest
something defensive like:

	printf '%s' "$*"