Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Major issue: "echo -n" is still not portable. >> >> Could we simply use >> >> touch marks-cur && >> touch marks-new > > Yes, "echo -n" is definitely not portable. Our preferred way of > creating an empty file is just ">file". Yes. And it is misleading to use "touch" in this case; unless you are updating the timestamp of an existing file while preserving the contents of it, please don't use the command. Thanks. -- 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