Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 26, 2007, 03:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwsywnske.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070526034236.GA18169@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:10:36AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
>> If you need to echo something that may have escapes in it, the portable
>> way to do it is
>> 
>> printf '%s\n' "$test"
>
> Ah, I see. I had thought the problem was coming from some dash
> interpolation magic, but yes, it's just echo doing the conversion. And
> POSIX is very clear that this is an implementation defined behavior.
> Thanks very much for the response, Herbert.
>
> Junio, patch is below. I have no idea how prevalent this issue is within
> our scripts, but this at least fixes the reported bug.

Gaah.  Ok, dash uses "echo -e" behaviour by default.

I guess we need to hunt allmost all "echo", as I suspect most of them (except the ones we use to do "echo $SHA1") have user strings somewhere.

What a mess, but that is not your fault nor Herbert's.

Thanks.