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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 03:47:04 -0400
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Szekeres Istvan <szekeres@iii.hu>,
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To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:38:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Yep.  Section 2.2.3 says that the backslash within double quotes will
> only serve as an escape character for $, `, ", \ and <newline>.  Of
> course, you can always use a single quote instead, i.e.,
> 
> printf '%s\n' "$VAR"
> 
> Then there can be no doubt :)

Right, I wasn't sure if the single quotes were necessary, but it looks
like Junio's version (with doublequotes) is also fine according to
POSIX. Thanks again.

-Peff