From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: git rebase -i error message interprets \t in commit message Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:44:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87k3jy6cyc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 06 17:45:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6jRV-0005HV-57 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:45:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755605Ab3HFPo4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:44:56 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50980 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755130Ab3HFPo4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:44:56 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50023 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6jRP-0000qx-GI for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:44:55 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0C23EAC27; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:44:43 +0200 (CEST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I just got the following error message: dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ git rebase -i Waiting for Emacs... error: could not apply 16de9d2... Make tempo range \tempo 20~30 be input as \tempo 20-30 instead When you have resolved this problem, run "git rebase --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git rebase --skip" instead. To check out the original branch and stop rebasing, run "git rebase --abort". Could not apply 16de9d2... Make tempo range empo 20~30 be input as empo 20-30 instead dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ git --version git version 1.8.1.2 As you can see, the first message starting with "error: could not apply" outputs a reasonable rendition of the commit summary line. However, the final "Could not apply" message (starting with a capital C) converts instances of \t to a tab. This is on Ubuntu 13.04 with lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 15 2012 /bin/sh -> dash -- David Kastrup