On 04/07, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:12:49AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > > > So... something inside "git submodule add" is replacing the \b with a > > backspace control code. > > [...] > > Whatever that "something" is, it is not doing shell expansion, otherwise it > > would have started an interactive calculator session. > > Probably it's "read" which does backslash expansion, but nothing else. > Just grepping git-submodule.sh, some of the "read" calls should probably > be "read -r" (I also don't know how some of those loops would cope with > a submodule name that needed quoting).
So I blindly converted all "read" calls to "read -r" and tested against the case Joachim ran into and it seems to solve the issues. All test still pass too (though that may not mean too much). -- Brandon Williams
