Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] git-am: add option to extract email Message-Id: tag into commit log

From: Avi Kivity <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:15:29 +0300

On 07/02/2014 06:03 PM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>> @@ -565,6 +568,7 @@ Use \"git am --abort\" to remove it.")"
>>   	echo " $git_apply_opt" >"$dotest/apply-opt"
>>   	echo "$threeway" >"$dotest/threeway"
>>   	echo "$sign" >"$dotest/sign"
>> +	echo "$message_id" >"$dotest/message-id"
>>   	echo "$utf8" >"$dotest/utf8"
>>   	echo "$keep" >"$dotest/keep"
>>   	echo "$scissors" >"$dotest/scissors"
>> @@ -651,6 +655,10 @@ then
>>   else
>>   	SIGNOFF=
>>   fi
>> +if test "$(cat "$dotest/message-id")" = t
> Does the usage of '"' inside of '"' look good, or can we write like this:
> if test $(cat "$dotest/message-id") = t

With your change, it will fail if the file is missing or empty.

Complex shell scripts cannot be made to look good.  If that's a 
requirement then the script should be rewritten in a reasonable language.