Re: [PATCH 7/6?] t4012: use 'printf' instead of 'dd' to generate a binary file
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> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>
> For some reason, 'echo X | dd bs=1k seek=1' creates a file with 2050 bytes
> on Windows instead of the expected 1026 bytes, so that a test fails. Since
> the actual contents of the file are irrelevant as long as there is at
> least one zero byte so that the diff machinery recognizes it as binary,
> use printf to generate it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
> While the focus is on t4012, maybe you can add this patch to the series.
Your patch looks good to me and works here. If I hear no
objections I will include it as number 7 when resending this
series.
Alexander
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> t/t4012-diff-binary.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh b/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh
> index 6cebb39..8c018ab 100755
> --- a/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh
> +++ b/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ cat >expect <<EOF
> EOF
>
> test_expect_success 'diff --stat with binary files and big change count' '
> - echo X | dd of=binfile bs=1k seek=1 &&
> + printf "\01\00%1024d" 1 >binfile &&
> git add binfile &&
> i=0 &&
> while test $i -lt 10000; do
> --
> 1.7.11.1.1304.g11834c6