Some versions of cut do not cope well with lines that do not end in an LF. Add '\n' to the printf format string to ensure that the generated output ends in a LF. I found this problem when t3404's "avoid unnecessary reset" failed due to the "rebase -i" not avoiding updating the tested timestamp. On a Mac OS X 10.4.11 system: % printf '%s' 'foo bar' | /usr/bin/cut -d ' ' -f 1 cut: stdin: Illegal byte sequence % printf '%s\n' 'foo bar' | /usr/bin/cut -d ' ' -f 1 foo Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@xxxxxxxxx> --- It looks like the cut on my system is derived from FreeBSD. It is probably an old version though (possibly too old to care about). The cut from GNU coreutils does not to have this problem, so using it serves as a workaround. --- git-rebase--interactive.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index eb2dff5..834460a 100755 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ skip_unnecessary_picks () { case "$fd,$command" in 3,pick|3,p) # pick a commit whose parent is current $ONTO -> skip - sha1=$(printf '%s' "$rest" | cut -d ' ' -f 1) + sha1=$(printf '%s\n' "$rest" | cut -d ' ' -f 1) case "$(git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$sha1"^)" in "$ONTO"*) ONTO=$sha1 -- 1.7.3.rc2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html