Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > Yes, I'm surprised Junio doesn't remember the mass conversions we 
> > already had to do (4b7cc26a and 293623ed). But looking at the date, I 
> > guess it _has_ been a year and a half. :)
> 
> Hey, be nice to Junio.  Have you seen the amount of mails on this list 
> recently?  I think Junio's the only one really reading all of them; even 
> if you were right, he would be entitled to a nicer reminder.

I didn't mean to be mean. On the contrary, I was surprised because _he_
usually is the one reminding _me_ about such fixes. I guess Junio is
human, after all. :)

> But you are wrong.  And Stephan is wrong, too.
> 
> The name "FIRSTLINE" suggests that it is indeed a first line, and 
> consequently cannot contain a newline.

It is not "this is a problem because it might contain a newline" but "this
is a problem because it might contain an escape sequence, _an example_
of which is a \n newline." So the question is whether you can guarantee
that $FIRSTLINE does not contain a backslash. Which I don't think is the
case here.

-Peff