From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:37:39 GMT
Subject: Re: t4201-shortlog.sh does bad things to my terminal
Message-ID: <7vmz0zey30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231928270.8822@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.