Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx> writes: >>but more like >> >> A | >> B | >> C >> > i'd argue that this should be written as > > A | > B | > C > > like other continued lines (no trailing backslashes are needed here, > but it would be ok to add them, and there is in fact a commit that > does just that in other places, and one might do the same here in a > followup). You are entitled to your own opinion, and you are welcome to stick to it in projects you run. But please refrain from wasting time of this project on something that is subjective preference and has no absolute yardstick to tell which is _right_ or _wrong_. Difference between the above two falls into "once it is written in one way, it is not worth the patch noise to turn it into the other way", and I already told you which is the preferred way for new code. As to trailing backslashes _after_ pipe, we have preference that is a bit stronger than "once it is written, it is not worth fixing". The shell knows, when you end a line with a vertical bar, you haven't finished your pipeline, and we do want to omit such an unnecessary backslash if we accidentally added one. b8403129 (t/t0015-hash.sh: remove unnecessary '\' at line end, 2022-02-08) is an example of such a style fix, and that is why I said the preference is a bit stronger than "once it is written...".
