From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 13:25:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sh-setup: explicitly mark CR as a field separator
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1510251422310.31610@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
In-Reply-To: <20151025131059.GA370025@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

Hi Brian,

re-Cc:ing the Git mailing list.

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 01:50:32PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > This is the correct thing to do, really: we already specify LF as
> > field separator.
> > 
> > Incidentally, this fixes the problem interactive rebase has when the
> > editor wants to save text with CR/LF line endings, as WordPad does
> > in Windows 10.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> >  git-sh-setup.sh               | 2 +-
> >  t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
> > index 4691fbc..94dfe04 100644
> > --- a/git-sh-setup.sh
> > +++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ unset CDPATH
> >  # do not equate an unset IFS with IFS with the default, so here is
> >  # an explicit SP HT LF.
> >  IFS=' 	
> > -'
> > +'"$(printf '')"
> 
> On Linux, printf '' produces no output.  From my understanding of the
> POSIX spec, this is the correct behavior.   Does it behave differently
> on Windows?  If so, it might be nice to explain that in the commit
> messgae.

Hrm. This is apparently a bug in the script I tried to write for three
days now (because the mailing list-based code submission is really *so*
much more tedious than the Pull Request-based process I got so used to).

The '' should really read '\r'.

Ciao,
Johannes