From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:26:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0050: fix printf format strings for portability
Message-ID: <7vvd2m7r6y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101221202755.GA27214@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Unlike bash and ksh, dash passes through hexadecimal \xcc escapes.
> So when run with dash, these tests *pass* (since '\xcc' is a perfectly
> reasonable filename) but they are not testing what was intended.
>
> Use octal escapes instead, in the spirit of v1.6.1-rc1~55^2
> (2008-11-09).

Thanks.