From: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:28:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: add --comment option to add a comment
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