From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:44:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901181843230.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090118170711.GA17055@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > The name "FIRSTLINE" suggests that it is indeed a first line, and 
> > consequently cannot contain a newline.
> 
> It is not "this is a problem because it might contain a newline" but 
> "this is a problem because it might contain an escape sequence, _an 
> example_ of which is a \n newline." So the question is whether you can 
> guarantee that $FIRSTLINE does not contain a backslash. Which I don't 
> think is the case here.

Oh.  Okay, so I was wrong.  But only because dash's echo behaves in a 
strange way: it makes "-e" a noop?

Ciao,
Dscho