visionmedia/git-extras — pull request #84 by wavded (2012-03-07 19:50:24+00:00)
Title: escape codes are not being escaped with echo

```
\nn.n.n / 2012-03-07 \n===========\n
```

`echo` by default unless aliased to `echo -e` won't escape thus resulting in what you see above. This should allow it to work even if if there isn't an alias.

ref: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_echo.htm