On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Remi Vanicat wrote: > > While trying to wrote a test for git, I discover that there is a test > failure in master on my computer: Hmm. Doesn't fail for me. > $ ./t4014-format-patch.sh > [....] > * FAIL 8: replay did not screw up the log message > > git cat-file commit rebuild-1 | grep "^Side .* with .* backslash-n" > > It seem that now, somewhere a \n has been interpreted as a newline. I wonder if it is some shell-specific variable expansion issue. What's your /bin/sh? (I assume, from your email address, that you're using Debian, and I thought Debian used bash, but maybe that's not true). What does a="hello\nhi" echo $a result in? Linus -- 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