git rebase -i error message interprets \t in commit message

Hi,

I just got the following error message:

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ git rebase -i Waiting for Emacs... error: could not apply 16de9d2... Make tempo range \tempo 20~30 be input as \tempo 20-30 instead

When you have resolved this problem, run "git rebase --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git rebase --skip" instead. To check out the original branch and stop rebasing, run "git rebase --abort". Could not apply 16de9d2... Make tempo range empo 20~30 be input as empo 20-30 instead dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ git --version git version 1.8.1.2

As you can see, the first message starting with "error: could not apply" outputs a reasonable rendition of the commit summary line. However, the final "Could not apply" message (starting with a capital C) converts instances of \t to a tab.

This is on Ubuntu 13.04 with

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 15  2012 /bin/sh -> dash