Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed

Hi.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote:

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

The name "FIRSTLINE" suggests that it is indeed a first line, and 
consequently cannot contain a newline.

It is not "this is a problem because it might contain a newline" but 
"this is a problem because it might contain an escape sequence, _an 
example_ of which is a \n newline." So the question is whether you can 
guarantee that $FIRSTLINE does not contain a backslash. Which I don't 
think is the case here.

Oh.  Okay, so I was wrong.  But only because dash's echo behaves in a 
strange way: it makes "-e" a noop?

Ciao,
Dscho