Re: Fwd: [PATCH] git-subtree: Avoid using echo -n even indirectly

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Paolo Giarrusso wrote:

> Seeing the email, I wonder whether there's hope something like that
> can be preserved in an email, and whether the code should use some
> escape sequence instead.

Yes, please.  Mind if I amend it to

	printf "%s\r" "$revcount/$revmax ($createcount)" >&2

?

[...]
>>         say()
>>         {
>>                 if [ -z "$quiet" ]; then
>>                         echo "$@" >&2
>>                fi
>>         }

I agree with the other reviewers that this should be fixed to use
printf, too, but that's another topic.

Thanks,
Jonathan