Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 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