From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 00:28:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
Message-ID: <m2ehr4sq1q.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vd36oesjr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Having said that, are we sure that
>
> 	printf "add bar\0initial"
>
> works per specification, or merely works by accident in some
> implementation?

Since the backslash is not followed by $ ` " \ <newline> it is not
special to the shell.

Andreas.

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