From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:49:41 -0500 Message-ID: <20090118174941.GA22718@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <636ecac0901160518o16706bbia9acaf09fdf92946@mail.gmail.com> <636ecac0901160634r586c72a0r9bb63c6f019f5bff@mail.gmail.com> <7vhc3x1874.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090118094113.GE11992@leksak.fem-net> <20090118153928.GA16664@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090118170711.GA17055@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Stephan Beyer , Junio C Hamano , Jonas =?utf-8?Q?Flod=C3=A9n?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 18 18:51:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LObng-0000X7-6i for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:51:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933966AbZARRto (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:49:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764139AbZARRto (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:49:44 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:53668 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762996AbZARRtn (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:49:43 -0500 Received: (qmail 22329 invoked by uid 107); 18 Jan 2009 17:49:46 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:49:46 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:49:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:44:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Oh. Okay, so I was wrong. But only because dash's echo behaves in a > strange way: it makes "-e" a noop? Right. "-e" isn't in POSIX at all, and it is a SysV-ism to allow escapes in any argument (I don't know if "-e" was introduced by GNU people, or came from elsewhere). See here for the gory details: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html -Peff