Michael J Gruber venit, vidit, dixit 08.10.2015 10:43: > Michael J Gruber venit, vidit, dixit 08.10.2015 10:15: >> James McCoy venit, vidit, dixit 08.10.2015 07:01: > ... >> [No, this does not alleviate my dislike for the commit signature >> implementation, and I have not checked the patch - the test looks good >> to me, though.] > > OK, now grumpy ol' Mike actually tested the patch with all our tests > that filter-branch something. All is good, and the new test catches the > regression when run without the patch. > > I do think that the parser still has a problem that it had before > already: it does not distinguish between an empty line and an all white > space line (or else we didn't have a problem here at all). > > In that sense, the patch is wrong, it does not correct the parser > deficiency. But it alleviates it for the special case of embedded > signatures, which currently is the only exceptional case that I am aware > of. It's not guaranteed to stay like that, of course. So maybe, one > should amend the commit message by saying that. > > Michael > ... or do the right thing: diff --git i/git-filter-branch.sh w/git-filter-branch.sh index 5777947..27c9c54 100755 --- i/git-filter-branch.sh +++ w/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ while read commit parents; do fi { - while read -r header_line && test -n "$header_line" + while IFS='' read -r header_line && test -n "$header_line" do # skip header lines... :; Not tested for POSIX etc., maybe we need a bare IFS inside a {} block instead. In any case, we need to tell read not to split by words. Michael -- 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