Re: [PATCH] t0008: 4 tests fail with ksh88

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2016, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3-B9SiBN479RQwjmtJsTns5Q2XUepdf9_NS0NVoQPGGw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk2iog16g.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> From: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:31:30 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] t0008: 4 tests fail with ksh88
>
> In t0008, we have
>
>         cat <<-EOF
>         ...
>         a/b/.gitignore:8:!on*   "a/b/one\"three"
>         ...
>         EOF
>
> ane expect that the backslash-dq is passed through literally.

s/ane/and/

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> ksh88 eats \ and generates a wrong expect data to compare with.
>
> Using \\" works this around without breaking other POSIX shells
> (which collapse backslash-backslash to a single backslash), and
> ksh88 does so, too.