Hi. On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > 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. Oh. Okay, so I was wrong. But only because dash's echo behaves in a strange way: it makes "-e" a noop? Ciao, Dscho -- 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
