On Tue, Jun 13 2017, Junio C. Hamano jotted:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Indenting using <<- would make it easier to read.  I.e.
>>>
>>>         cat >config.branch <<-\EOF &&
>>>         ;; Comment for ...
>>>         [branch "source"]
>>>                 ;; Comment for ...
>>>         ...
>>>         EOF
>>
>> I should have added a comment for that, I can't find any portable (but
>> suggestions welcome) way to do that and preserve the indentation, so
>> the test_cmp would still succeed if the moving/renaming function
>> munged all leading whitespace in the config with -\EOF as opposed to
>> \EOF.
>
> Ah, I see why it is done that way.  You could indent the lines in
> the configuration file with SPs (<<- strips only HTs, no?)

Sure, we'll do that for v2.

>> It's just a sufficiently large number, I thought -A was portable
>> enough after grepping the test suite, but on closer inspection it
>> turns out those were all git-grep invocations, oops. Yeah all I need
>> here is all lines after a line matching a given string, so that sed
>> command works, will fix it up to use that.
>
> Oops, indeed ;-)  Thanks.

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