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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	newren@gmail.com, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: t6044 broken on pu
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 08:54:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5618208c-ce45-d65c-abf8-498cfe0f2f84@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa8k11e8j.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 08.05.16 04:21, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
>
>> That's true, but the test passes anyway.
> You can also remove the body of the test and replace it with "true"
> and say "the test passes anyway".  Changing the test to use a file
> with only one line is irresponsible, if you do not know the nature
> of expected future bug that requires 10 lines to be there to
> manifest that the test wants to try.
>
> test_seq was invented exactly for the purpose of accomodating
> platforms that lack seq, so using it would probably be the best
> first step.  Updating implementation of test_seq to avoid $PERL
> would be a separate step, if desired (I personally do not think
> that is worth it).
We don't need to invoke perl, when the shell can do that internally ?

May a  simple
 printf "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n"

be an option ?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-08  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-07 12:00 t6044 broken on pu Torsten Bögershausen
2016-05-07 12:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-05-07 13:15   ` Ramsay Jones
2016-05-07 13:43     ` Ramsay Jones
2016-05-07 16:18   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2016-05-08  2:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-08  6:54       ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2016-05-08 18:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-09  4:43           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2016-05-09 18:22             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-09  6:30           ` demerphq
2016-05-09  8:33             ` Jeff King
2016-05-09 16:02               ` Eric Sunshine
2016-05-09 16:12                 ` Jeff King
2016-05-09 18:26                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-09 18:36                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-09 20:10                       ` Eric Sunshine
2016-05-09 21:08                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-09 21:27                         ` Eric Sunshine
2016-05-10  2:41                       ` Jeff King

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