Hi Phillip and Michal,
I think I found the bug.
If you look at .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo.backup, which is
created before the editor is opened, you can see that it does not have
this problem. In between, transform_todos() is called and causes the
problem reported by Michal.
This seems to be caused by a single line, sequencer:4661 (on b5101f9297,
"Fourth batch after 2.20", 2019-01-29)[1]. If you add just before a
something like this:
fwrite(item->arg, item->arg_len, sizeof(char), stdout);
You will see that the argument is properly written to stdout. But if
you write this:
printf("%.*s\n", item->arg_len, item->arg);
You will have the same broken output as in the todo file.
Are we misusing C formats?
[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/sequencer.c#L4661
Cheers,
Alban