Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.6.4

BJ Hargrave [off-list ref] writes:

The test

 invalid_ref "$(printf 'heads/foo\177')"

was added to t1402-check-ref-format.sh. However sh on my RHEL 4 system
does not handle the DEL (\177) character well in double quoted strings.

sh-3.00$ echo $(printf 'hello\177') | hexdump -C
00000000  68 65 6c 6c 6f 7f 0a                              |hello..|
00000007
sh-3.00$ echo "$(printf 'hello\177')" | hexdump -C
00000000  68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a                                 |hello.|
00000006

The double quotes cause the DEL (\177) character to be discarded.

Can this test be rewritten to avoid this apparent bug in sh on RHEL 4?

For older distros, I would prefer a workaround patch first tested by
distro packaging people and then upstreamed.

Thanks.