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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:34:23PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> +# If "ridiculous" is at least 1004 chars, this traps a bug in old
> +# versions where the resulting 1025-char line (with --pretty=oneline)
> +# was longer than a 1024-char buffer
> +test_expect_success 'ridiculously long subject in boundary' '
> +
> +	: > file4 &&
> +	test_tick &&
> +	git add file4 &&
> +	printf "abcdefghijkl %s\n" $(seq 1 100) | git commit -F - &&

Seq is not portable. I usually use either

  perl -le "print for (1..100)"

or just do:

  z16=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  z256=$z16$z16$z16$z16$z16$z16$z16$z16
  z1024=$z256$z256$z256$z256$z256$z256$z256$z256

-Peff