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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary
 commits
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:10:16 +0100
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Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Jannis Pohlmann <jannis.pohlmann@codethink.co.uk>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Am 22.02.2012 21:55, schrieb Jeff King:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:34:23PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
>> +	printf "abcdefghijkl %s\n" $(seq 1 100) | git commit -F - &&
> 
> Seq is not portable.

Thanks for pointing this out.

> 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

If a sequence of ASCII zeros is good enough, you can also do:

  printf %02134d 0

-- Hannes