On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:29:42PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Why not > > w_commit=$(echo "WIP on $msg" | > > Hmm? It is shorter and more to the point. IMHO it is also more common. Because echo cannot reliably reproduce arbitrary strings. See commits: a23bfaed..4b7cc26a You can add this to your list of reasons to rewrite everything in C. -Peff - 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