On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Yes, I'm surprised Junio doesn't remember the mass conversions we > > already had to do (4b7cc26a and 293623ed). But looking at the date, I > > guess it _has_ been a year and a half. :) > > Hey, be nice to Junio. Have you seen the amount of mails on this list > recently? I think Junio's the only one really reading all of them; even > if you were right, he would be entitled to a nicer reminder. I didn't mean to be mean. On the contrary, I was surprised because _he_ usually is the one reminding _me_ about such fixes. I guess Junio is human, after all. :) > But you are wrong. And Stephan is wrong, too. > > The name "FIRSTLINE" suggests that it is indeed a first line, and > consequently cannot contain a newline. It is not "this is a problem because it might contain a newline" but "this is a problem because it might contain an escape sequence, _an example_ of which is a \n newline." So the question is whether you can guarantee that $FIRSTLINE does not contain a backslash. Which I don't think is the case here. -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
