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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --show-prefix: add in trailing newline
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:41:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vcl7ir86.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1unwwwov.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:07:44 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Because the assignment will strip the trailing LF away

No, it doesn't.  Command substitution does.

> But it will break existing scripts if they expect the following to work:
>
> 	file="$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)/$1"
>         cd_to_toplevel
>         test -f "$file"

This is already broken because of the extra slash.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09 13:27 [PATCH] rev-parse --show-prefix: add in trailing newline Ross Lagerwall
2012-04-09 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10  5:30   ` Ross Lagerwall
2012-04-10 14:04   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-10 14:41   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-04-10 16:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10 17:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-10 17:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10 22:51   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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