Some implementations of wc pad the line number with white space, which expr does not grok as a number.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- git-format-patch-script | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) da0488e94f7f949cbfce7422980eb2fe38166b9a diff --git a/git-format-patch-script b/git-format-patch-script --- a/git-format-patch-script +++ b/git-format-patch-script @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ _x40="$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x4 stripCommitHead='/^'"$_x40"' (from '"$_x40"')$/d' git-rev-list --merge-order "$junio" "^$linus" >$series -total=`wc -l <$series` +total=`wc -l <$series | tr -dc "[0-9]"` i=$total while read commit do - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

