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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
	"Remi Vanicat" <vanicat@debian.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:24:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080417162421.GA18318@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804170841270.2879@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:44:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ahh. So that "echo" should just be replaced with a 'printf "%s\n"' 
> instead? 
> 
> We have a _lot_ of "echo"s though. I suspect the only ones we'd ever catch 
> are the ones explicitly tested for. I suspect that the dash echo is just 
> broken.

As Bjorn mentioned, it's POSIX.  Junio and I already hunted down quite a
few of these, so I think we are OK in general, and this is just a new
one that got introduced.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17  9:30 [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master Remi Vanicat
2008-04-17 15:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-17 15:34   ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-17 15:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-17 16:03       ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-17 16:24       ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-04-17 16:27         ` Jeff King
2008-04-17 15:44   ` Rémi Vanicat
2008-04-18 18:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-18 18:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-18 22:13         ` Rémi Vanicat
2008-04-19  6:51           ` Junio C Hamano

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