Re: [PATCH] git-prompt: fix reading files with windows line endings

> On 30 Nov 2017 16:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Robert Abel wrote:
> >> So reading a dummy variable along with the actual content variable
> >> works for git-prompt:
> >>
> >>     __git_eread ()
> >>     {
> >>         local f="$1"
> >>         local dummy
> >>         shift
> >>         test -r "$f" && IFS=$'\r\n' read "$@" dummy < "$f"
> >>     }
> >>
> >> I feel like this would be the most readable solution thus far.
> > 
> > Hmm. I am just a little concerned about "dummy" swallowing the rest of the
> > line, e.g. when reading "1 2 3" via `__git_eread line`... the way I read
> > it, dummy would consume "2 3" and line would *not* receive "1 2 3" but
> > only "1"...
> You missed that tab and space aren't field separator anymore,
> because IFS=$'\r\n'. The way I see it, __git_eread was never meant to
> split tokens. Its primary purpose was to test if a file exists and if
> so, read all its contents sans the newline into a variable.