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

On 2008.04.17 08:11:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Remi Vanicat wrote:

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While trying to wrote a test for git, I discover that there is a test
failure in master on my computer:

Hmm. Doesn't fail for me.

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$ ./t4014-format-patch.sh
[....]
* FAIL 8: replay did not screw up the log message

 git cat-file commit rebuild-1 | grep "^Side .* with .* backslash-n"

It seem that now, somewhere a \n has been interpreted as a newline.

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).

What does

	a="hello\nhi"
	echo $a

result in?

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

Björn