The issue command shows double quotes with backslashes in front of them.

[ingydotnet]

This "thing" renders as "thing".

See:

git hub issue ingydotnet/git-subrepo  317
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 I'm trying to \"sell\" subrepos to move from an existing mercurial setup (+
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[ingydotnet]

ingydotnet/json-bash#10 should fix it.