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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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. :)

Ok, I forgot, sue me ;-).

Anyway, thanks for spotting.  I'll fix it up like this.

-- >8 --
Subject: git-am: re-fix the diag message printing

The $FIRSTLINE variable is from the user's commit and can contain
arbitrary backslash escapes that may be (mis)interpreted when given to
"echo", depending on the implementation.  Use "printf" to work around the
issue.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-am.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index ae2fe56..cf3d4a7 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ do
 	fi
 	if test $apply_status != 0
 	then
-		echo "Patch failed at $msgnum $FIRSTLINE"
+		printf 'Patch failed at %s %s\n' "$msgnum" "$FIRSTLINE"
 		stop_here_user_resolve $this
 	fi
 
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