Re: [PATCH 2/5] t5303: test some corrupt deltas

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> Would "echo base >base" give us 5-byte long base even on Windows?
> >
> > Please note that Unix shell scripting is a foreign thing on Windows. As
> > such, there is not really any "native" shell we can use [*1*], and
> 
> Yeah, I know that; otherwise I wouldn't have asked.  Because ...
> 
> > therefore we use MSYS2's Bash which outputs Unix line endings.
> 
> ... I didn't know what MSYS folks chose, and/or if you have chosen
> to tweak their choice, and/or if you switched to somebody else's shell
> (e.g. busybox) and/or you chose to tweak what they do out of the box,
> it was worth asking and getting yes/no question.  You do not have to
> tell me why I should be asking.
> 
> So instead of typing 3 lines, you can just say "yes we use echo that
> emulates Unix".

I actually found Dscho's response much more informative than a simple
yes/no.

At any rate, it sounds like we are probably OK with echo, but I think it
is still worth doing the defensive patch-on-top that I posted.

-Peff