From: Michael Geddes Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 02:01:50 GMT Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2] t5000, t5003: do not use test_cmp to compare binary files Message-ID: <5268585.VtKVR75oeq@majorie> In-Reply-To: I have the problem that the overridden test_cmp crashes on a couple of places where it is doing a binary compare, so this is definitely needed. I actually used cmp -q in my override as it's the return code that is most important. //. On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:22:56 AM Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stepan Kasal writes: > > test_cmp() is primarily meant to compare text files (and display the > > difference for debug purposes). > > > > Raw "cmp" is better suited to compare binary files (tar, zip, etc.). > > > > On MinGW, test_cmp is a shell function mingw_test_cmp that tries to > > read both files into environment, stripping CR characters (introduced > > in commit 4d715ac0). > > > > This function usually speeds things up, as fork is extremly slow on > > Windows. But no wonder that this function is extremely slow and > > sometimes even crashes when comparing large tar or zip files. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal > > --- > > > > Hi Thomas, > > > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:59:44PM +0200, Thomas Braun wrote: > >> Using test_cmp_bin instead of cmp would result in then four assertions > >> for comparing arbitrary data > >> test_cmp > >> test_i18ncmp > >> test_cmp_text > >> test_cmp_bin > >> where I think the purpose of each function is clear from its name. > > > > [test_cmp_text does not exist (yet)] > > > > OK, I agree, hence this modified version of the patch. > > Yeah, I think the above reasoning is sound. And I do not think we > ever need to have test_cmp_text -- our payload and our messages > compared by tests to make sure our expectations hold are text by > default. > > Will queue; thanks. -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.