From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:38:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/15] fast-export: avoid importing blob marks
Message-ID: <20121111163827.GA11408@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <509FD425.5030702@web.de>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> On 11.11.12 14:59, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > test_expect_success 'test biridectionality' '
> > +	echo -n > marks-cur &&
> > +	echo -n > marks-new &&
> Unless I messed up the patch:
> 
> Minor issue: still a typo "biridectionality"
> Major issue:  "echo -n" is still not portable.
> 
> Could we simply use
> 
> touch  marks-cur  &&
> touch marks-new

Yes, "echo -n" is definitely not portable.  Our preferred way of
creating an empty file is just ">file".

-Peff