Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] git-subtree: Avoid using echo -n even indirectly

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:46:47 +0200

Am 10/9/2013 12:32, schrieb Paolo Giarrusso:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Tay Ray Chuan <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Paolo G. Giarrusso
>> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>> index 7d7af03..ebfb78f 100755
>>> --- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>> +++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
>>> @@ -592,7 +592,9 @@ cmd_split()
>>>         eval "$grl" |
>>>         while read rev parents; do
>>>                 revcount=$(($revcount + 1))
>>> -               say -n "$revcount/$revmax ($createcount)
>>> "
>>> +               if [ -z "$quiet" ]; then
>>> +                       printf "%s" "$revcount/$revmax ($createcount)
>>> " >&2
> 
> An additional note for reviewers and appliers: the original and the
> patched codeboth embed a literal ^M,
>...
> whether the code should use some
> escape sequence instead.

As you are using printf, you can easily do:

			printf '%s\r' "..."

without using ^M.

-- Hannes