Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@xxxxxxx> writes: >> > +cat >.gitignore <<EOF >> >> You probably want to use \EOF here. > > I am curious, does it matter? Most of the tests use EOF and not \EOF. If you want the same shell variable expansion and quoting rules as you get inside double-quote pair, you would say <<EOF without any quotes. If you quote the EOF, no such substitutions happen. In this particular case, you want what you typed there literally in the file, so <<\EOF would be more correct, even though \# expands to \# itself. IOW, your current list of patterns does not happen to have anything like $var nor \\ that would make a difference, but to protect future breakages by people adding more patterns there, it is better to say <<\EOF when you know you are not asking for any funny expansion to be explicit. -- 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
