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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: 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 08:44:07 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804170841270.2879@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080417153421.GA13117@atjola.homenet>



On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> 
> Debian has its own dash which is supposed to be a lightweight
> alternative to bash and "for checking POSIX compliance of scripts"
> (quote from the packages description). I don't happen to know off-hand
> whether POSIX says that echo should default to -e, but dash seems to do
> that:
> 
> $ dash
> $ a="hello\nhi"
> $ echo $a
> hello
> hi

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.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17 15:46 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 [this message]
2008-04-17 16:03       ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-17 16:24       ` Jeff King
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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