Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>> Uwe Storbeck wrote: >> >>>>> + printf '%s\n' "$@" | sed -e 's/^/# /' >>> >>> This is wrong, isn't it? Why do we want one line per item here? >> >> Yes, Hannes caught the same, too. Sorry for the sloppiness. >> >> We currently use "echo" all over the place (e.g., 'echo "$path"' in >> git-sh-setup), and every time we fix it there is a chance of making >> mistakes. I wonder if it would make sense to add a helper to make the >> echo calls easier to replace: > > I agree that we would benefit from having a helper to print a single > line, which we very often do, without having to worry about the > boilerplate '%s\n' of printf or the portability gotcha of echo. > > I am a bit reluctant to name the helper "sane_echo" to declare "echo > that interprets backslashes in the string is insane", though. raw_echo -- David Kastrup -- 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