Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Because the assignment will strip the trailing LF away No, it doesn't. Command substitution does. > But it will break existing scripts if they expect the following to work: > > file="$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)/$1" > cd_to_toplevel > test -f "$file" This is already broken because of the extra slash. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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