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Re: t4201-shortlog.sh does bad things to my terminal

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 23, 2007, 18:37 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
>
>> It appears that this message is printing a control character to turn off 
>> echoing, because the terminal appears completely unresponsive 
>> afterwards. Typing "reset" restores the terminal.
>> 
>> Is this really necessary?
>
> On both accounts, no. I did not dream of these bytes being interpreted as 
> control characters.
>
> OTOH, you should not need to use --verbose anyway.

I think it's not Sven but you; you should use --quiet in your git commit if the log message has annoying characters.

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