On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:29:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Our patches do seem to fix the reading side of the issue, but I am not
> sure if the writing side needs further fix.  If I recall, the script had
> liberal use of "echo $var"; some implementations of echo interprets
> backslash sequence without being asked with an explicit "-e".

Possibly, I just have the bash builtin and the coreutils echo here, both
are writing \t properly without -e.