Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: merge-tree: provide a commit message

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Oct 9, 2024, 16:58 UTC
Message-ID: <878quxfc2h.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo73uz5qg.fsf@gitster.g>

On Okt 08 2024, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>> -       NEWCOMMIT=$(git commit-tree $NEWTREE -p $BRANCH1 -p $BRANCH2)
>> +       NEWCOMMIT=$(git commit-tree $NEWTREE -F $FILE_WITH_COMMIT_MESSAGE \
>> +           -p $BRANCH1 -p $BRANCH2)
>>         git update-ref $BRANCH1 $NEWCOMMIT
>
> The shell should know, after seeing $FILE_WITH_COMMIT_MESSAGE and
> encountering the end of line, that you haven't completed telling
> what you started telling it.  Do you need " \" at the end of the
> line?

The contents of $(...) is a (multiline) shell script, with the same whitespace and newline rules as a regular script.

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