Re: git-svn and mergeinfo

Bryan Jacobs [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Naive question: why can't you pass a newline (properly quoted, of
course) directly within the string argument to the --mergeinfo option?

The only way I know of to do that in bash is to assign the
newline-bearing string to a variable, and then use the variable in a
command line option. Extremely awkward.

Hmm, I think Michael meant by "properly quoted" something like this:

    $ git commit -s -m 'Fix blorb
    > 
    > As it stands, blorb feature is totally broken for such and
    > such reasons. Fix it by restructuring frotz and nitfol to
    > use the same xyzzy helper function.'

which is not all that awkward, even for a free-form text argument like
commit log. In this case, you are talking about svn merge-info that is a
lot more structured (it is much less likely to see a single-quote in there
than my commit log message example above, for example) so...