"Santi Béjar" <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2/23/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am wondering if FETCH_FETCHED is purely for internal use by >> git-fetch (it appears so), and if so if it is worth trying to do >> without the temporary file, but that is a minor detail. > > Yes, it's purely internal. With "without the temporary file" you mean > to put the content in a variable or removing at the end? If a variable suffices that would be quite nice, but it is not a big deal. As the script does fair amount of computation in subprocess, I suspect it may not be worth trying to use variable, only to get rid of the temporary file. >> I appreciate the cleverness of the intersection. However, is >> "echo -e" portable? I think we have avoided it so far (we have >> avoided even "echo -n" which is traditionally much more >> available). > > printf '%s\n%s' "$merge_branches" "$fetch_branches" > > is OK? Yes. I think printf is what people who rewrote my "echo -n" have done elsewhere. - 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