From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Regression in 'git mergetool --tool-help'
Message-ID: <xmqqpn34m1n0.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <2e7485b6-86d9-4de2-a823-dd84fc7386b0@gmail.com>

Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks René and Johannes for two additional suggestions; both work correctly.
> Junio, I retried yours and verified my quoting and I confirm it does not work.
>
> I think I prefer René's suggestion.
>
> Thanks all,

I see what was wrong with my variant.

We force IFS to be LF and nothing else upfront, which defeats the
attempt to split $variants at SP and turn them into "one token per
line" with "printf '%s\n' $variants | ..."

In any case, I find René's variant easier to follow, too.  

Thanks, all.