Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Rémi Vanicat" <vanicat@debian.org> writes:

> 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?

So perhaps this one is the troublemaker?

 git-am.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 646dc45..5b20bbd 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ do
 		SUBJECT="$(sed -n '/^Subject/ s/Subject: //p' "$dotest/info")"
 		case "$keep_subject" in -k)  SUBJECT="[PATCH] $SUBJECT" ;; esac
 
-		(echo "$SUBJECT" ; echo ; cat "$dotest/msg") |
+		(printf '%s\n' "$SUBJECT" ; echo ; cat "$dotest/msg") |
 			git stripspace > "$dotest/msg-clean"
 		;;
 	esac