From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:25:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: remove xargs in favor of --stdin where possible
Message-ID: <7v8wlrwtt3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0904230307h2d4ee691y412e9cf31e4e90c3@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

>> The tests may not break with your change because none of them may use
>> problematic characters (especially "\n" and '"'), but update-index --stdin
>> without -z is not suitable for reading from output from "find" without -0
>> option (on the other hand, "update-index -z --stdin" is good for reading
>> output from "find -0"; but for portability we avoid GNUism "find -0").
>
> It can't be as safe as find -0| update-index -z, but it would be
> equivalent to find|xargs, isn't it? Both separate arguments by \n.

Have you worked with pathnames with high-bit set and without
core.quotepath set to false?