Re: [PATCH v2] config: add --comment option to add a comment

From: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de>
Date: Mar 12, 2024, 07:28 UTC
Message-ID: <877ci7lxid.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPx1Gvd4FjCTSn4oUWNDtLS2G4V3yrddggafX0WHfHEdojtCNQ@mail.gmail.com>

* Chris Torek:

> You must use a literal line feed, e.g.:
>
> LF='
> '

Of course, silly me. Easily done in a shell script. I was too focused on trying it in an interactive shell. Thanks, Chris.

Do you perhaps know of a function in the Git code base which could be used to sanitise strings? It is quite a lot of code to sift through if one is unfamiliar with it, so I'll gladly take hints.

-Ralph

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