Re: [PATCHv2] am: fix patch format detection for Thunderbird "Save As" emails

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2009, 23:49 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmy1fsv0e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091218T223918-175@post.gmane.org>

Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:

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> Stephen Boyd <bebarino <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> +	{
>> +		echo "X-Fake-Field: Line One\015" &&
>
> echo and \ do not portably mix.  For that matter, shell double quotes and 
> backslash escapes that are not required by POSIX do not portably mix.  To 
> reliably create carriage returns in shell, you need to use printf, or else 
> something like:
>
> echo "...@" | tr '@' '\015'

Thanks.

Also we probably want to change the "only munge the first three lines" to something like:

	format-patch --stdout |
        sed -e 's/$/Q/' |
        tr 'Q' '\015'

picking some 'Q' that we know does not appear in the text.