On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 12:24 PM Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] wrote:

Interpolating the $seqN variable directly into the string rather than
using %s would make it even clearer that only a single line is being
generated as input to git-mktree:

   tree1=$(printf "100644 blob $seq1\tsequence\n" | git mktree) &&
   tree2=$(printf "100644 blob $seq2\tsequence\n" | git mktree) &&
   tree3=$(printf "100644 blob $seq3\tsequence\n" | git mktree) &&

Alternatively `echo` could be used, though it's not necessarily any nicer:

    tree1=$(echo "100644 blob $seq1Qsequence" | q_to_tab | git mktree) &&
    tree2=$(echo "100644 blob $seq2Qsequence" | q_to_tab | git mktree) &&
    tree3=$(echo "100644 blob $seq3Qsequence" | q_to_tab | git mktree) &&

The `printf` example is probably cleaner, thus preferable. For
completeness, though, I should mention that the `echo` example is, of
course, not quite correct. For the interpolation to work as intended,
it would need ${...}:

    tree1=$(echo "100644 blob ${seq1}Qsequence" | q_to_tab | git mktree) &&
    tree2=$(echo "100644 blob ${seq2}Qsequence" | q_to_tab | git mktree) &&
    tree3=$(echo "100644 blob ${seq3}Qsequence" | q_to_tab | git mktree) &&