Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:10:36AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

quoted

If you need to echo something that may have escapes in it, the portable
way to do it is

printf '%s\n' "$test"

Ah, I see. I had thought the problem was coming from some dash
interpolation magic, but yes, it's just echo doing the conversion. And
POSIX is very clear that this is an implementation defined behavior.
Thanks very much for the response, Herbert.

Junio, patch is below. I have no idea how prevalent this issue is within
our scripts, but this at least fixes the reported bug.

Gaah.  Ok, dash uses "echo -e" behaviour by default.

I guess we need to hunt allmost all "echo", as I suspect most of
them (except the ones we use to do "echo $SHA1") have user
strings somewhere.

What a mess, but that is not your fault nor Herbert's.

Thanks.