Re: [PATCH v3 12/20] t: refactor tests depending on Perl to print data

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 1, 2025, 18:35 UTC
Message-ID: <4d461a62-9cf5-c64d-cd97-c70ef53afbac@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20250327-b4-pks-t-perlless-v3-12-b436de9da1b8@pks.im>

Hi Patrick,

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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> A bunch of tests rely on Perl to print data in various different ways.
> These usages fall into the following categories:
>
>   - Print data conditionally by matching patterns. These usecases can be
>     converted to use awk(1) rather easily.
>
>   - Print data repeatedly. These usecases can typically be converted to
>     use a combination of `test-tool genzeros` and sed(1).

It might be even more elegant to teach `genzeros` to generate streams of bytes other than NUL.

>   - Print data in reverse. These usecases can be converted to use
>     awk(1).

Or, in one case, `sort -r`.

These changes all look good to me.

Ciao, Johannes