From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:20:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
Message-ID: <7vtzat89br.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1225429753-70109-1-git-send-email-benji@silverinsanity.com>

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

> Not all /bin/sh have a builtin echo that recognizes -n.  Using printf
> is far more portable.
>
> Discovered on OS X 10.5.5 in t4030-diff-textconv.sh and changed in all
> the test scripts.

I had an impression that OS X was BSDish.  Wasn't "echo -n" a BSDism?