Re: rebase [-i --exec | -ix] <CMD>...

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>]

konglu@minatec.inpg.fr writes:

> As you pointed out, the problem seems to come from this line
> 	tmp=$(sed "/^pick .*/i\exec $i" "$1")
> I think that the dquote here doesn't work on MacOS, though i've
> never tried it.

I don't see a reason why it wouldn't. Anyway, quotes are managed by the
shell, and in our case, sed is the one complaining.

I experimented a bit, and it seems Mac OS's sed insists in having a \
and a newline after i (it seems POSIX requires it too). In your code
above, the \ is included in double quotes, so you have to escape it.

This snippet works reliably on my Linux machine and on a Mac OS X one:

x=$(echo 'pick foo' | sed -e "/pick/i\\
exec $1")
echo "$x"

> Anyway, even if it's not the problem, this kind of quoting is quite
> odd so it will be removed in the next patch

Be careful, you do need quoting around $i.

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Matthieu Moy
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