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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/t7300: workaround ancient touch by rearranging
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:46:19 -0400
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:26:25AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:31, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Hmm, this seemed eerily familiar, and sure enough:
> >
> > =C2=A0http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/10127=
0
>=20
> Does this call for a git_touch which does a regular 'touch' for each
> of its arguments?

I don't know the broken touch's behavior, and I don't have it handy. It
might handle "touch 1" fine or it might interpret it as "touch at time
1, no file arguments". Brandon's solution is good enough for a test
script.

If you really wanted a portable git_touch, you would spell it ">>$file"=
=2E

-Peff