From: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] t4124: fix test for non-compliant diff(1)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:40:48 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200324034025.GE11801@danh.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8sjq4wyf.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On 2020-03-23 13:50:48-0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > A comment in test-lib-functions::test_cmp mentions that
> > there _is_ a diff out there that doesn't understand "-u".
>
> That came from 82ebb0b6 (add test_cmp function for test scripts,
> 2008-03-12).
>
> The change history at the end of the page:
>
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/diff.html
>
> suggests that POSIX did not require "diff -u" until Issue 7, so it
> is not surprising that the lack of "diff -u" to cause test_cmp to
> fail was of real concern back in March 2008, as the application of
> the errata have been only an year and half old, according to:
>
> https://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_325.txt
>
> I vaguely recall that some open source projects only took the copied
> context diffs and not unified ones the last time I checked, but
> admittedly (1) that "last time" was a long time ago and (2) our
> popularity and the fact that we do not understand copied context
> [*1*] may have forced people to move away from "-c" and adopt "-u"
> at the same time.
>
> So it might be OK to write off any system that does not understand
> "diff -u" as an unusable trash these days ;-)
From the setting in "config.mak.uname", it's likely those systems
don't understand "diff -u":
- Solaris 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9: both of them are un-supported version
by their vendor
- AIX, only AIX 5.3 doesn't understand "-u",
the end-of-support AIX 6.1's diff(1) understand "-u" (1)
- HP-UX: From what I can collect, HP-UX still conforms to UNIX-03, and
its diff(1) doesn't understand "-u"
Hence, if we're going to drop support for system that doesn't
understand "diff -u", we're going to:
- remove support for those variables:
+ GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT
+ GIT_TEST_CMP
- drop support for:
+ Solaris 5.{6,7,8,} and AIX 5.3, which will be fine
+ HP-UX: which needs to be discussed
[1]: https://public.dhe.ibm.com/systems/power/docs/aix/61/aixcmds2_pdf.pdf page 133(143)
--
Danh
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-22 0:55 [PATCH v2 0/8] fix test failure with busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] t4061: use POSIX compliant regex(7) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] test-lib-functions: test_cmp: eval $GIT_TEST_CMP Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] t5003: drop the subshell in test_lazy_prereq Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] t5003: skip conversion test if unzip -a is unavailable Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] t5616: use rev-parse instead to get HEAD's object_id Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] t7063: drop non-POSIX argument "-ls" from find(1) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-23 14:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-23 14:37 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2020-03-23 15:11 ` Danh Doan
2020-03-23 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 15:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-24 22:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 23:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] t4124: fix test for non-compliant diff(1) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-23 13:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-23 15:04 ` Danh Doan
2020-03-23 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-24 3:40 ` Danh Doan [this message]
2020-03-24 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-25 14:24 ` Danh Doan
2020-03-24 22:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 23:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-25 18:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-22 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] t5703: feed raw data into test-tool unpack-sideband Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-22 6:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] fix test failure with busybox Jeff King
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] t4061: use POSIX compliant regex(7) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] test-lib-functions: test_cmp: eval $GIT_TEST_CMP Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] t5003: drop the subshell in test_lazy_prereq Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] t5003: skip conversion test if unzip -a is unavailable Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] t5616: use rev-parse instead to get HEAD's object_id Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] t7063: drop non-POSIX argument "-ls" from find(1) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] t4124: fix test for non-compliant diff(1) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-27 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-26 4:37 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] t5703: feed raw data into test-tool unpack-sideband Đoàn Trần Công Danh
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