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Subject: Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master
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2008/4/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
>
>
>  On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Remi Vanicat wrote:
[...]
>  > $ ./t4014-format-patch.sh
>  > [....]
>  > * FAIL 8: replay did not screw up the log message
>
>  Hmm. Doesn't fail for me.

[...]

>  I wonder if it is some shell-specific variable expansion issue. What's
>  your /bin/sh? (I assume, from your email address, that you're using
>  Debian, and I thought Debian used bash, but maybe that's not true).

Debian used bash, but I use dash as /bin/sh

>  What does
>
>         a="hello\nhi"
>         echo $a
>
>  result in?

here is the problem:

$/bin/sh
$ a="hello\nhi"
$ echo $a
hello
hi

Mmm, I Wonder what posix said about this, but it look like a bug with dash