Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 17, 2008, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804170806430.2879@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <87od88eslq.dlv@maison.homelinux.org>

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Remi Vanicat wrote:

> 
> While trying to wrote a test for git, I discover that there is a test
> failure in master on my computer:

Hmm. Doesn't fail for me.

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> $ ./t4014-format-patch.sh
> [....]
> * FAIL 8: replay did not screw up the log message
> 
>  git cat-file commit rebuild-1 | grep "^Side .* with .* backslash-n"
> 
> It seem that now, somewhere a \n has been interpreted as a newline.

I wonder if it is some shell-specific variable expansion issue. What's your /bin/sh? (I assume, from your email address, that you're using Debian, and I thought Debian used bash, but maybe that's not true).

What does

	a="hello\nhi"
	echo $a

result in?

		Linus