Paul Tan <pyokagan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Junio, > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: >> >>> In other words: >>> test $(cat file) = file && >> >> Is there a guarantee that file has a single word? Can it be empty? >> Can it contain "foo bar\n"? > > It can, but it should not ;-). But yes, this will need to be quoted as > well to be safe. Whoops. Yup. I see that existing test (this script is ancient, isn't it?) has the same issue of using backticks and not quoting sufficiently. Perhaps we would want a clean-up-and-modernise step before this patch to reduce patch noise. 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