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rustic snapshots does not render multi-line descriptions correctly #926
Description
When backing up with --description-from description.txt, where description.txt is a file with multiple lines of text. The output of restic snapshots --long is broken:
C:\Users\Florens\test\stuff>rustic snapshots -r ../repo --long ad78594f682ca4445cb4677dc5891952396db739d04b3f20d770e6ad2faea371
using no config file (.\rustic.toml doesn't exist)
enter repository password:
[INFO] repository local:../repo: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at C:\Users\Florens\AppData\Local\rustic\dafc41415e5541942621e0127f4fb6d6da8ac43445ef7edaf76054ec63f8b420
| Snapshot | ad78594f682ca4445cb4677dc5891952396db739d04b3f20d770e6ad2faea371 |
| Time | 2023-11-05 11:46:55 |
| Generated by | rustic v0.5.4 |
| Host | test |
| Label | |
| Tags | |
| Delete | not set |
| Paths | C:\Users\Florens\test\stuff |
| Parent | 6b7f880307692b889be98de56fb007827d12276c66a0ed8cff0f5ba4c07158c4 |
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| Command | C:\Users\Florens\scoop\apps\rustic\current\rustic.exe backup -r ../repo --host test --password --description-from ../description.txt . |
| Source | files: 1 / dirs: 6 / size: 6 B |
| | |
| Files | new: 0 / changed: 0 / unchanged: 1 |
| Dirs | new: 0 / changed: 0 / unchanged: 6 |
| | |
| Added to repo | data: 0 blobs / raw: 0 B / packed: 0 B |
| | tree: 0 blobs / raw: 0 B / packed: 0 B |
| | total: 0 blobs / raw: 0 B / packed: 0 B |
| Duration | backup start: 2023-11-05 11:46:55 / backup end: 2023-11-05 11:46:55 / backup duration: 3ms 160us 600ns |
| | total duration: 7ms 797us 600ns |
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| | line2 |
1 snapshot(s)
The content of description.txt for this test was:
line1
line2
Additionally, it doesn't seem possible to create multi-line descriptions without a description file. I tried doing --description line1\r\nline2, but the escape sequences were included as-is in the output.
Activity
[-]`restic snapshots` does not render multi-line descriptions correctly[/-][+]`rustic snapshots` does not render multi-line descriptions correctly[/+]aawsome commentedon Nov 5, 2023
Thanks a lot for this issue! Seems we need to improve this.
magrathean-uk commentedon Aug 1, 2026
I opened a focused draft PR for this: #1864
It normalizes CRLF descriptions before terminal table rendering so Windows line endings do not overwrite rows.